James Blunt Quotes
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	If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.   
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	If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.   
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	You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.   
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	I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.   
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	I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.   
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	Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.   
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	There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.   
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	I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.   
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	To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.   
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	I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.   
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	I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.   
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	My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.   
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	It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.   
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	For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.   
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	When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'   
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	When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.   
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	The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.   
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	Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.   
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	I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.   
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	I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.   
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	I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.   
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	From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.   
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	Maybe I should try singing like a man.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					