James Earl Jones Quotes
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
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I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
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Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
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There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
