James Schuyler Quotes
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
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Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
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The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
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And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.
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One tends to write beyond what's needed.
