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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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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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.

  

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

  

  Walker Percy
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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.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
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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.

  

  Yuri Milner
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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.

  

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

  

  Naveen Andrews
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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
  • People
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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.

  

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

  

  Rand Paul
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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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
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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.

  

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

  Mandy Bujold
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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.

  

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

  

  Oren Peli
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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.

  

  Questlove
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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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
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  • Brother

• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Football
  • Cricket

• The Chinese Student Association at Cornell put together their own play. It was all Asian people in the cast except for me, because they wanted to do a couple of scenes about an interracial relationship. I was the only non-Asian person on stage; the entire audience was Asian apart from my 10 friends that showed up.

  

  Ato Essandoh
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• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
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  • Country
  • America

• What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.

  

  Van Morrison
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• Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

  

  Gary Wright
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  • Process

• 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