James Arthur Quotes
I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.
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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
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I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
