James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
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The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
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I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
