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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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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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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Life must be lived as play.
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Cancer is something none of us are prepared to deal with. We're here to help people through the process.
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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
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I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.
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The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.
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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.
