James McBride Quotes

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

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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

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• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

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• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  

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• I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.

  

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• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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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.

  

  Vikram Patel
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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.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  

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

  

  Omari Hardwick
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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.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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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.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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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.

  

  Flume
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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.

  

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

  

  Eden Hazard
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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.

  

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

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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  • Minds
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• Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

  

  Jenny Zhang
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• When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

  

  Cory Booker
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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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