Jim Walton Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
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God grades on the Cross not on the curve.
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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
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Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.
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Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.
