James Earl Jones Quotes
I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.
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Writers are so important.
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We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...
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What feeds me destroys me.
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
