Jim Walton Quotes
CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
Quotes to Explore
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I still have a young attitude.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
