James McBride Quotes
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.
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Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
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But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
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Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.
