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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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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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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I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.
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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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The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.
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Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.
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There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.
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PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.
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By having much, you are fitted to have more.
