James Reston Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
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The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
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You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
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When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.
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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
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I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.
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In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
