James T. Walsh Quotes
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
