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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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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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
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My aunts and uncles were like, 'You've got such a great voice - why don't you try out for 'American Idol?'' I'd say, 'Because I'm a songwriter, not a puppet.' Even if I won and became really successful off a show like that, I'd be miserable.
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I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia. And there's this brand called Hengst that makes a killer jumpsuit. I'm a sucker for those.
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It's a dream to be in a company of actors.
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
