James L. Farmer, Jr. Quotes
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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Along the way, everyone's been saying, 'Make sure you take care of your voice because you're going to want to do it the rest of your life.' And it's absolutely true.
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It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
