James Madison Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
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Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
