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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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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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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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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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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It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.
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How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money.
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We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.
