James P. Gorman Quotes
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.
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I love the way Tyra Banks dresses up - she looks so elegant and glamorous in whatever she wears. The confidence and attitude she exudes on and off the ramp is remarkable.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it.
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There are such strong women in my life that there's no chance of me getting too big for my boots.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
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Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.
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I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.
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Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.
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I think all my movies are commercial. That's my delusion. I thought 'Naked Lunch' was wildly entertaining, so what do I know?
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I'll be very clear about this: I'm not a fan of getting rid of Dodd-Frank.
