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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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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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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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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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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Clarity is so important for Shakespeare.
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
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In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
