James Weldon Johnson Quotes
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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People never notice anything.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
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Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.
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Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
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Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.
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Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
