James Thurber Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.
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Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.
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Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.
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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
