James St. James Quotes
I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
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I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.
