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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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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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction.
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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The killing of the horses a bullfight in Madrid, he visited in June 1910 by the bull is very horrible, much more so as they have no chance to escape and are ridden up to the bull to be butchered.. ..the entry of the bull into the ring however is very beautiful; his surprise and the first charges he makes are very pretty.
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The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
