Jim Brown Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
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it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.
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I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.
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I am forever a Cleveland Brown.
