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I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.
James Spader
Try
See
Something
Like
Just
Different
Happens
Planner
Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.
James Spader
Great
You
Surgeon
Pressure
Living
Other
Consider
Way
Seemed
Only
Like
Qualified
Make
Great Way
Alternatives
Although
Making
Still
Making Movies
Were
Lot
Than
Labour
Being
Movies
Mean
Acting
Manual
Less
Thing
I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.
James Spader
Life
Me
My Life
Year
Films
Out
One Or Two
Promoting
Vital
Obligatory
Absolutely
Outside
Consumption
Like
Terms
Public
Them
Then
Eager
Present
Two
I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
James Spader
Character
You
Character Actor
Those
Bad
Bad Guys
Guys
Had
Like
Look
Were
Roles
Loved
Really
Who
Actor
Play
Necessarily
When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like.
James Spader
Character
Hair
Like
Know
Looks
Get
Cut
Next
Working
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
James Stephens
Bird
Rose
Inside
Pot
Wing
Outside
Like
Perfume
Without
Gold
I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
James Stockdale
Would
Something
Boss
Take
Attention
Demanded
Like
Came
Maybe
Just
Mean
Might
Should
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
James Stockdale
Me
Business
Papers
Seemed
Seems
Having
Throwback
Like
Schoolboy
Felt
Yeah
Any
Just
Mean
Helpless
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
James Surowiecki
Together
Protection
Animals
Herd
Other
Uncertainty
Like
Conditions
Humans
Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.
James Surowiecki
God
Thank God
Coffee
Will
Out
Run
Some
Point
Like
Although
Always
Still
Thank
Commodity
Oil
Which
Us
If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.
James Surowiecki
Work
You
Value
Rest
Google
Rich
Nothing
Increasing
Though
Give
Share
Like
Stock
Options
Just
Happens
Us
Working
Company
Apple
Players
Chance
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.
James Surowiecki
Work
Best
Election
Will
President
Markets
Bad
Outcomes
Record
Excel
Horse
Results
Like
Supreme
Nominee
Supreme Court
Track
Track Record
Court
Go
Lots
Historical
Depends
Information
Predicting
Whim
Available
Races
Next
Who
Things
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
James Surowiecki
Capitalism
Think
Other
Way
Those
Possible
Must
Critics
Seek
Price
Consumer
Deliver
Consumers
Part
Like
Most
Make
Around
Sell
Controlled
Want
Manipulated
Them
Lowest
Who
Companies
Things
And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.
James T. Walsh
Commitment
World
Seen
Group
Programs
Security
Citizens
Like
Because
Continuing
Senior
Senior Citizens
Social
Social Security
Now
Ever
Prescription
Prescription Drugs
Medicare
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
James Tate
Think
Like
Happens
Ordinary
Then
Next
Start
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
James Taylor
Day
Me
Feast
Like
Concert
Always
Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?
James Taylor
Myself
Me
Tell
Photographers
Like
Know
Mostly
Read
How
Reporters
Want
After
Them
Really
I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
James Taylor
Good
Me
Experience
People
Recognized
Possible
Has-Been
Bother
Contact
Like
Know
Terms
Audience
Been
Very
Celebrated
Being
Who
Nicest
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
James Taylor
Beatles
Enough
Else
Side
See
Like
Also
Were
Anyone
Anyone Else
Ordinary
Lucky
Phenomenon
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
James Thomson
Life
Death
Good
Heart
World
Mind
Will
Out
Purpose
Like
Forever
Rolls
Ill
Round
Mill
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
Natural
Humor
Think
Preserved
Our
Resources
Must
Cost
Like
Greatest
Which
Natural Resources
Serious
Thing
Earliest
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
James Tobin
Great
Stress
Like
Undergraduate
Yale
Lot
Graduate
Graduation
Places
Teaching
It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
James Turrell
Eyes
Light
Feeling
Out
Pupil
Touch
Only
Like
Opens
Reduced
Goes
I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
James Turrell
Reality
Illusion
Our
Way
System
See
Something
Like
Know
Well
Might
Convincing
Belief
Present
I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
James Turrell
Work
You
Experience
Light
Space
Situation
See
Physically
Take
Feel
Like
Becomes
Up
Which
Inhabiting
Your
Presence
Desire
Set
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing... like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
James Turrell
Thought
Fire
Looking
Seeing
Atmosphere
Like
Want
Create
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