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 novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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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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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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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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I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.
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I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
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I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.
