James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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I'm an early-morning owl.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
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Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.
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I think everyone needs to know that I steal biscotti on Delta Airlines. People need to know that.
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
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My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.
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The first two My Morning Jacket records were basically demos.
