James McBride Quotes
All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I got no hate in me.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.
