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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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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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
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These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
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I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
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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.
