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.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Know
  • Go
  • Execute

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Nations
  • Exhausted

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• What is a farm but a mute gospel?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gospel
  • Farm
  • Mute

• 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.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Leader

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• 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.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Power
  • Best

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Why
  • Father

• Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

  

  John McLaughlin
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

  

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Up
  • Power
  • Air

• Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• 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.

  

  James McBride
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  • Truth
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