James McBride Quotes
I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I would like to direct.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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I'm at a time in my life where I'm so filled up that I don't want more.
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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
