Jim Doyle Quotes
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
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Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that's the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one's surfed before? Second to that is photography.
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The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
