Jim Brown Quotes
America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Women just love to shop.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
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I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
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Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
