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 is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.
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When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
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No matter who you voted for, I do not hold anything against you.
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If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
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In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
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I am forever a Cleveland Brown.
