Jim Brown Quotes
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.
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The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.
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I prefer girls who are young.
