James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.
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Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.
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I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.
