Jim Barksdale Quotes
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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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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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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.
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We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook.
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I was very focused on school. No social life whatsoever.
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Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
