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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So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.
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I'm not the best athlete.
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Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
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As an actor, when you want to capture the spirit of the character, and the character exists in all of the iterations slightly differently, you work towards getting a sense of what the creators wanted to do, you know? Then, you work off of that.
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There is no shame in scars, Ismae.
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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.
