James McBride Quotes

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

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• When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

  

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• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

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• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

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• Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

  

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• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

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• If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

  

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• I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

  

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• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

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• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

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• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

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• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

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• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

  

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• We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.

  

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• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  

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• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  

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• When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

  

  James McBride
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