James Stephens Quotes
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
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'Your God doesn’t care about you at all,' Travis said.'All the more reason to care about myself and others.'
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In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
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We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
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When she told people how nervous she was about any kind of public appearance, they said incredibly annoying things like, ‘Don’t forget to breathe.’ Now she knew why.
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Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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There's nothing wrong with fighting for the right things.
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Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
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And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
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Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.
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By having much, you are fitted to have more.
