James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes
I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
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I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'
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I'm a time person. It's the one discipline I manage.
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I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.
