James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Being evil is easy.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.
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It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.
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I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.
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I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.
