James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.
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Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.
