Jam Quotes - Page 5

• People will try to copy what they can see, which is the final product or service, but it's much harder to see (and copy) all the intricacies of the business model that allows you to create, capture, and deliver value. And that's what you need to get right to really jam something down people's throats!

  Scott D. Anthony

  People, Trying, Finals

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Guitar, Able, Chords

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• The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

  Evan Esar

  Car, Traffic, Convenient

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• What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Labels, Records

  "Chuck D: A 'Hip Hop God' Speaks". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  Vijender Singh

  Glasses, Eggs, Two

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. Jun 1, 2012.

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• I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

  Ryan Guzman

  Giving, Guy, Hip Hop

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

  Elle Varner

  Girl, Singing, Remember

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• The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.

  Willie Robertson

  Ideas, Together, Biscuits

  Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2014). “The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

  John Grisham

  Traffic, Traffic Jam

  John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.299, Dell

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• People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  J. G. Ballard

  Italian, Technology, Cities

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• But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Oats, Apples

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• [Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Exercise, Journey, Cycling

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• The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

  Ezra Pound

  Letting Go, Country, Children

  "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".

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• If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, War, World

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• Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

  Sharon Jones

  Band, Stuff, Phish

  "SXSW: Sharon Jones: Too short, too dark, too fat?". Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

  Eric Clapton

  Blow, Together, Might

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Airports, Cities

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• If one party is trusting, it is very easy during sex for the other party to format someone, to put thoughts in their mind, to jam their consciousness or attention, to lower their energy or just take power from them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Party, Mind

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• There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

  Iwan Rheon

  Stuff, Faces, Great Music

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• And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
  [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
  Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

  Plautus

  Done, Goodness, Plus

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• Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
  [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna
  Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

  Ovid

  Dream, Morning, Lamps

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Space, Leaving, Needs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
  [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
  Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
  Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

  Lucretius

  Strong, Mind, Genius

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• A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Brother, Endurance, Doctrine

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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