James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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We can't legislate human nature.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.
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Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he - oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.
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If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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This is brave Bear-Garden language!
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I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.
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We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.
