James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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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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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.
