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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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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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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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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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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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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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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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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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.
