James W. Black Quotes
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
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Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.
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The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
