James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

James Carl Inkanish, Jr.

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• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

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• Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

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• I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

  

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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

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• When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

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• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

  

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• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
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• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
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• True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

  

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• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

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• When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

  

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• Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

  

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• What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

  

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• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

  

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• The argument of the strongest is always the best.

  

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• If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

  

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• I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
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