James McBride Quotes
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I've done it all.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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..paint was always in history of painting a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
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I want to offer plus-size women the opportunity to wear fun colors and to avoid the pitfalls of only wearing black because many curvy girls think it is the only color that is slimming.
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I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.
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Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
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I don’t know about five years from now. I have no plans for that. Maybe I’ll be forgotten by then.
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It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.
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I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
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A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
