James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
We don't have universal health care. Education is so expensive. We have these massive problems, you know? So it makes me really happy to think that somebody could have all the music in the world for free. But at the same time, if you have enough money to pay for it, you should pay for it.James Edward Olliges Jr.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward -
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
Dan Aykroyd -
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz -
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
Larry Norman -
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
Taran Killam
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz -
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel -
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
Larry David -
I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
Victoria Clark -
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
Beatrice Wood -
People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
Taylor Swift
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I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that.
Clive Davis -
Belize has a tropical climate and is quite affordable and is developing a reputation as an inexpensive Hawaii. If you want to hide away someplace that is extremely low-key, Placencia is perfect. San Pedro is more touristy and modernized.
Kenneth Choi -
I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
Barack Obama -
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
We don't have universal health care. Education is so expensive. We have these massive problems, you know? So it makes me really happy to think that somebody could have all the music in the world for free. But at the same time, if you have enough money to pay for it, you should pay for it.
James Edward Olliges Jr.