James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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At times, I can be a slave to money.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.
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I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.
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You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But you should sleep on it and come back in the morning and make sure.
