James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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I think the best rappers practice concept albums in their work.
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A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.
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Our long-term prosperity depends critically on the ability of world leaders to make politically difficult decisions at a time when the global economy is still vulnerable on so many fronts.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
