James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
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I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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The best time is always yesterday.
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
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The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.
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From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
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I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
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There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.
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If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.
