James Earl Jones Quotes
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.
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I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back.
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It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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I'd love to write full time. But it's not something that is due to me because I'm a writer. Times are very hard for doing the thing you love, but the payoff for not having much money is that you love your job. A balance would be good. But yes, given infinite funds, or a guaranteed regular income of some kind, I'd happily shut myself away and write stories for the rest of what I've got in me.
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There's nothing I would retire for, so I won't retire.
