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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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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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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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
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I wasn't talented as a musician.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
