James Hall Quotes

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

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• Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Great
  • Live
  • Think

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• 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.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Job
  • Society

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• 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?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• 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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Suicide
  • Concerned
  • Soldiers

• Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Live
  • Los Angeles

• 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.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Control
  • Fighting

• 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.'

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • She
  • Mother
  • Present

• People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Nasty

• L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Innocent

• Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Beach
  • Gym
  • Bike

• The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Gymnastics

• I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Hurt

• Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • May
  • Grease

• Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Words

• I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

  

  Peter Beard
  • Learning
  • Stress

• I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

  

  George Washington
  • Important
  • Country
  • Real

• Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

  

  James Hall
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Colorful