Jim O'Heir Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
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Everybody grows but me.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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I want people to feel happy when they wear my shoes.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.
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If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
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I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.
