Jim Brown Quotes
Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
Quotes to Explore
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I love India.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
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Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.
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Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.
