James Mark Baldwin Quotes
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'
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I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.
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The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
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I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.
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I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.
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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
