James McBride Quotes
I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
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Today, there are no proven safe and effective therapies for the coronavirus.
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We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself.
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I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
