Jim Irsay Quotes
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
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I didn't even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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Revolutions never go backward.
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The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
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I'd smile so much my face would crack in two Then you could fix it with your kissing glue I'd like that Yes, I'd like that
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Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.
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Some of the shoes I have are from movies - I have my workman's boots from 'While You Were Sleeping' - while others are shoes I've had forever.
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The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
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But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
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Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
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My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.
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Honestly, at the end of every season, we sit down and review where we're at.
