Everybody in my generation loved Muhammad Ali. What a horrid task to have to take on.


Jim Lampley

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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
Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
JIM ROHN
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
JIM ROHN
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre...
JIM ROGERS
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be sw...
JIM ROGERS
Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react a...
JIM ROGERS
Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil que...
JIM BUTCHER
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
JIM BENTON
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANO
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
JIM MORRISON
You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said pr...
JIM BUTCHER
You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It...
JIM SHEPARD
People are strange . . .
JIM MORRISON
Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
JIM MORRISON
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a s...
JIM FIEBIG
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess ...
JIM ROHN
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
JIM ROHN