Jim Brown Quotes

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

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• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

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• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

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• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

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• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

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• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

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• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

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• I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

  

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• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

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• I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

  

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• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

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• Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.

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• I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

  

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• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

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• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

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• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

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• We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

  

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• I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.

  

  Adnan Sami
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• If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

  

  Jessie Ware
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• I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

  

  Jessie Buckley
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• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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• The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Happy