Jim Rogers Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
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Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
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I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
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Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
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Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
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When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.
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I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
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I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.
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When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
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There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.
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I strive to destroy fear and judgment that once stifled me.
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I'll listen to the people. I will not put my party ahead of what the people want.
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Attacking Iraq would be madness.
