Jim Brown Quotes
I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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One guy came to a show and was like, 'You're going to be huge. I can see it in my mind's eye. We could make you the next Pixie Lott.' I did an internal scream and ran away.
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I really enjoyed working with Guy Ritchie. One, it gave me a career, and two, they're probably a couple of the best films I've ever done.
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No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it's easy to go after the cute girl or guy that's new to town.
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When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.
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When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
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I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
