Jim Brown Quotes

It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.

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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.
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That persons have opposing interests and seek to advance their own conception of the good is not at all the same thing as their being moved by envy and jealousy.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
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It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.