James P. Gorman Quotes
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.
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Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.
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I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.
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I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.
