Jim Brown Quotes
I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I love women more than anything.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.
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Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
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Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
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Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.
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I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.
