James McBride Quotes
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
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The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
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Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
