C. L. R. James Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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Accept loss forever.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
