James Patterson Quotes
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
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He who has no confidence utters falsehoods, and he who utters falsehoods has no confidence.
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Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.
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Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
