Marlon James Quotes
I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
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Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.
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I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
