James Arthur Quotes
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
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I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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'Now I’m going to make you angry again.''Really?' I asked, drily. 'Aren’t you getting tired of that?'
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Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasiesBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to beSadder still to watch it die, then never to have known itFor you, the blind who once could seeThe bell tolls for thee... - Losing It (1982)
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
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I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.
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If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.
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It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship.
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I was on the dole.
