James Young Quotes
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.
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When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed.
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Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
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I'm actually quite conservative.
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
