C. L. R. James Quotes

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

C. L. R. James

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• It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

  

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• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

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• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  

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• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

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• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

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• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

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• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

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• If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

  

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• The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

  

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• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

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• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

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• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

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• It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

  

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• My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.

  

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• Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

  

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• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

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• Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

  

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• I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

  

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• An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

  

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• The funny thing is, people only know me for having straight hair for work, but I live in Atlanta where it's hot and humid in the summertime. So when I'm home, I wear my hair natural. My hair is naturally curly; I don't have a relaxer.

  

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• The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

  

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• Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

  

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• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Long
  • Country