James McBride Quotes

Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Job
  • Class

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Teacher

• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Age

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Good
  • Me
  • Comfortable

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good
  • Wine

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you?

  

  Haddon W. Robinson
  • Lies

• Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Women
  • Violence

• Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.

  

  James McBride
  • Time
  • May
  • History