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 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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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
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I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.
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When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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Sometimes people can be offensive and not even realize it.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
