James Forman, Jr. Quotes
I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.
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Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.
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I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
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Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.
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I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.
