James Broughton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
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As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
