James Stephens Quotes
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
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Yahoo is a global technology company that provides personalized products and services, including search, advertising, content, and communications in more than 45 languages in 60 countries. As a pioneer of the World Wide Web, we enjoy some of the longest-lasting customer relationships on the Web.
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I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
