James Baldwin Quotes
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Was he still, somehow, watching over her?
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I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.
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You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.
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I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.
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Status doesn't matter; fame doesn't matter. You have to be really, really grounded in who you are and feel good as a person inside.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
