Jim Barksdale Quotes
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
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The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity.
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Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.
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There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.
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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.
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Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.
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I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.
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Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.
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The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
