James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.
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It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
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The police need to come down to street level.
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I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
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For me, it's more powerful to hear people sing about God than love in most circumstances because I've been hearing people sing about love for most of my life.
