James Stephens Quotes
The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.
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There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
