Jim Brown Quotes
I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley.
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Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
