James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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We just here to do our job.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.
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I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.
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I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.
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I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.
