Jim Crace Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
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We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
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Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.
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Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place.
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You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
