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.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• 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.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • System
  • Capitalism

• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Star
  • Thought
  • First

• 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.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Got

• My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Food

• Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Age
  • Guy
  • House

• I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

  

  George Eads
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Borders

• 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.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Hope