James McBride Quotes
The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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No two wars are identical.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
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The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
