James Baldwin Quotes

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin

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• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Write

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Free
  • Small
  • Me

• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Free

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Understanding
  • Step

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • World
  • Free
  • Step

• We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Free
  • Majority
  • Listens

• In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Free
  • United States
  • Oyster

• I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Equality
  • Prejudices

• I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Free

• If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Drama
  • Child

• You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Free
  • Moving
  • Woman

• Love is a thyng as any spirit free. Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Men
  • Free

• You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Together
  • Interesting
  • Ego

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Doubt

• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Free