James McBride Quotes
I was in a special class in high school for truants. They made us stay together all day. Once a week, they would send us to a guidance counselor. He would sit me in his office and he would try to talk to me.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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I have a pig valve.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.
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Together with Adobe, we're committed to fostering creativity and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers so they can unlock the opportunities of today's rapidly evolving workplace.
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I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
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I was in a special class in high school for truants. They made us stay together all day. Once a week, they would send us to a guidance counselor. He would sit me in his office and he would try to talk to me.
