James Thomson Quotes
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Live fast, die young.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
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What view the bill-sticker and sandwich man take of the subject I have yet to learn. The first is, at least, no bad substitute for a hanging committee, and the clothes of the second are better company than somebody else’s picture, and less obtrusive than a background of stamped magenta paper.
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The new national campfire - radio.
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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
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Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.
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NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other way round.
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Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
