James Otis Quotes
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
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Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
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In general, what we want to do is to elevate Volvo's brand positioning, and we feel the main lever to achieve that is to develop more higher-tier products.
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As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.
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She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack." "Yes?" "I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
