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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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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Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.
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There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.
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'How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.'
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As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
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Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.
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What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
