C. L. R. James Quotes
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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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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
