James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I want to win football games.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
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By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.
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For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.
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I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.
