James Randi Quotes
Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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"So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. "Got your eye on someone?" She didn‘t know what made her say it. "No. But I have no plans to die a virgin."
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
