Jim Bankoff Quotes
AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
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I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.'
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
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In the real world, children love me.
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Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
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Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.
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Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.
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My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring
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You're not changing the world at $500 million in revenue. You start making a true difference when you're doing billions in revenue.
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Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
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Just breathing isn't living!
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafes in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.
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AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.
