James Durbin Quotes
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
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Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
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All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
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There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
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But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
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I'm a really big fan of facial hair.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
