George Payne Rainsford James Quotes
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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It is easy to make plans but difficult to carry them out.
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I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.
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His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
