James Bay Quotes
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Death is better than slavery.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
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We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.
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It's just a great feeling, once you have a child.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
