James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
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The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.
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Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!
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I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.
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I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.
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Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
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O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
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I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.
