James L. Farmer, Jr. Quotes
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
