C. L. R. James Quotes
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
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I met a lady in the meads,Full beautiful - a faery's child,Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.
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Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.
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The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
