Jim Barksdale Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
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The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity.
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Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.
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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.
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I could never sit down and write jokes.
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I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
