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James A. Michener Quotes

A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear.

James A. Michener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997

Topics

Time You Person Bear More Heavy

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

Jerry Pournelle

Science America Early Nobody First

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

Robert H. Schuller

Think Body Kind Emotional System

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Love Business Cooking Down Forget

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

Freedom Democracy Control Thought

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

Amanda Lindhout

Myself Decision Travel I Am World

If you've never founded a company, rest assured it never happens as elegantly and smoothly as articles in 'Inc.' and other business magazines or case studies suggest.

Business Rest You Never Company

To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of Sheldon from 'The Big Bang Theory' breaking down in the middle of the store, not knowing which console to buy, but we can see in TV and movies how regular characters are more and more starting to play games.

People Think Not Knowing Look Play

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Work Truth Great Stress Detail Way

People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness.

Work People Flexibility Different

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

Great Believe Want Movement Give

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

People Think Enough You Alive Tell

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Matter Question Jewish Being Whole

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