James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Edward Olliges Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				G. Stanley Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karin Slaughter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rainer Maria Rilke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Babyface 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even Napoleon had his Watergate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yogi Berra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gael Garcia Bernal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Robert James Ritchi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Shelby Spong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hampton Sides 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Sandburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Edward Olliges Jr.