James Earl Jones Quotes
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
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Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
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One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
