Jim Brown Quotes
I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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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 have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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Popularity is totally overrated.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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I want people to feel good after I sing.
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I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
