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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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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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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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
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Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
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I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.
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There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth
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Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
