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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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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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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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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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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I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
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Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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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.
