James Fallows Quotes

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Game
  • Best
  • Football

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• 'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Different
  • Together
  • Respect

• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Person
  • Independent
  • Well

• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Heaven
  • Come
  • Angels

• Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Up
  • Business
  • Know

• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Young
  • Old Man

• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Speaking

• You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Guy
  • Fighting
  • Green

• When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Light
  • Reflection
  • White

• Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Christmas
  • Show
  • Forward

• I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Because
  • Faithful
  • Handle

• I will work hard to try to get rid of the death penalty. If I could do that, with all the other things I have not succeeded in doing, I would consider my political career to have been a resounding success.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • Career
  • Death
  • Success

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slave
  • Union
  • Freeing

• I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Life
  • Teacher
  • Son

• If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

  

  Cote de Pablo
  • Complaining

• There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

  

  James Fallows