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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The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
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Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
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Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.
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Dieu des Juifs, tu l'emportes!
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.
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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?
