Jim Brown Quotes
'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.
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I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
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If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
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'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
