James Toback Quotes
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
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The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
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Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
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Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?
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It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.
