James O'Shaughnessy Quotes
It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
Quotes to Explore
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I know what poverty is.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.
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The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
