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At Oxford it took me weeks to convince the man on the gate that I was the manager. He always gave me the third degree before he let me in.


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JIM JARMUSCH The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
JIM ROHN Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's somethin...
JIM ROHN If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
JIM ROHN Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
JIM MANZI Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or m...
JIM HENSON I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for...
JIM MORRISON Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and...
JIM BUTCHER The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...
JIM MORRISON [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
JIM HENSON Sleep is God. Go worship.
JIM BUTCHER A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. ...
JIM MORRISON People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about...
JIM MORRISON I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...
JIM BUTCHER There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
JIM HENSON Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
JIM DAVIS Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. I...
JIM BUTCHER A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
JIM BUTCHER Either you run the day or the day runs you..
JIM ROHN