C. L. R. James Quotes

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

C. L. R. James

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• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • America
  • Know

• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Playing

• When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Running
  • Water
  • Electricity

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Olympic
  • Medallist

• We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Women
  • Game
  • Old

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Security
  • Economic
  • Policy

• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Up
  • Death
  • Die

• I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Blood
  • Native

• I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • World
  • Travel
  • Husband

• I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

  

  Randy West
  • World
  • American
  • Watches

• Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Law
  • Environment
  • Fans

• I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.

  

  Halsey
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Witty

• No two beings, and no two situations, are really commensurable with each other. To become aware of this fact is to undergo a sort of crisis. But it is with this crisis in our moral awareness as a starting-point, that there becomes possible that cry from us towards the creative principle, and that demand by it on us, which each must answer in his own way.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Moral

• There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• The course of Nature is the art of God.

  

  Edward Young
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  

  Len Wein
  • True
  • Friend

• Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Power
  • Soul

• I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Path

• Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Believe

• When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Great
  • High
  • Film

• When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco, because fresco is part of the wall. It's art, but it's decoration at the same time.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Domestic
  • Integrated
  • Decoration

• If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

  

  C. L. R. James