James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
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Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
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Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.
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I have no agenda. I'll play anywhere. All I need is a reason to believe that it's a good place for me and that I'm wanted, and I'm coming.
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'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
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One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.
