James McBride Quotes
My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.
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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
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Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance, that will look the largest which is surrounded by the darkest background.
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.
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I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.
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A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
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Music is a defining element of character.
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My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
