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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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 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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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
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Thank you for making a web site for me. I was so surprised when I found it.
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Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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Love is love. Let's take it any way we can get it.
