James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.
Quotes to Explore
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.
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I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
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Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon
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When you cut your hair, everybody thinks you lost weight.
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Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.
