Jimmy Chin Quotes
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Say yes to everything.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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'Fix' - definitely, when I first heard the demo of that song, it was kind of intimidating because of the high falsetto parts. It was one of those things. I got into the vocal booth and wasn't sure I could do it or how well I could do it. There was something about the song that I really took to.
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The book is a private confessional form that provides a 'point of view.'
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I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
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When I'm home, I still live like I'm traveling. I have nothing in my refrigerator.