James Otis Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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I just love dancing.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.
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I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
