James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
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Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.
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John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
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The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
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Love is love. Let's take it any way we can get it.
