Jim Brown Quotes
Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.
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Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
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I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
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I think people expect me to dress a bit like Veronica from 'Shameless,' in vest tops and denim skirts.
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Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.
