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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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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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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Faith with proof is no faith at all.
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I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.
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I don’t think a crow has ever even considered the categorical imperative.
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
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The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.
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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?
