James "Jim" Seals Quotes
The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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Time travel is one of Assad's major achievements, the problem is he only perfected it one way: backward.
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The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
