James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
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I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.
