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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
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I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
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What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
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I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
