Jim Otto Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I just want to be like other people that are normal.
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Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).
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I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
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I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.
