James Weldon Johnson Quotes
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
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The terrorists are busy in and outside the country in such activities which are a danger to the unity and integrity of the country.
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‘…Your little feuilleton…recording…my crude nabob’s philistinism…’
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Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.
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It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.
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A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
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In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
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I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
