James Polshek Quotes
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.
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I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
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The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
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Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.
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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
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I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
