James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how your heart wants it to be made. But it's a difficult world, especially for musicians.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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I still love the semiconductor industry.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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To me, absurdity is the only reality.
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If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how your heart wants it to be made. But it's a difficult world, especially for musicians.
