James St. James Quotes
I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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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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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.
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Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
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My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.
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I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.
