James Hall Quotes
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.
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Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'
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People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.
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It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody's going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.
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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
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Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
