Jim Lynch Quotes
I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
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I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
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I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
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I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.
