"I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads."

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Source : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

James Caan

#Dad Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Son Quotes

“The trouble is if you donâ€™t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
“The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.”
“If anyone other than you had me fly halfway around the world just to keep me waiting while you were obviously lingering in bed, Iâ€™d have my driver run them over. Twice.”
“I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.”

Source : "The Last Mission" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2009.
“The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.”
“Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, â€œNobody wants to work with an asshole.â€ You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.”
“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
“We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.”

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