James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.
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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
