James Baldwin Quotes
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.James Baldwin
Quotes to Explore
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams -
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg -
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
Sam Harris -
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
Larry Holmes -
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Quintilian
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov -
Music is such a part of my soul.
Victoria Justice -
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts -
Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
Sam Graves
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I. M. Pei -
There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
Edith Widder -
I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Sam Jaeger -
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
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The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.
Chris Sacca -
I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.
Cynthia Rowley -
I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.
Andrew McMahon -
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
Joanne Rowling -
I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.
Matt Kuchar -
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
James Baldwin