Alice James Quotes
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
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Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
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On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
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I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
