James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
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I am Providence, and Providence is myself-together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!
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I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.
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Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.
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You don't know old Charles as I know him. He's got into a queer set, and there's no knowing what mischief he's up to. He's perfectly capable of starting a revolution in Armenia or somewhere merely to see how it feels like to be a revolutionary. That's the damned thing about the artistic temperament.
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Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.
