James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes
Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.
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Beliefs help us tap the richest resources deep within us, creating & directing these resources to support our desired outcome
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.
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People have also said that I can't be used as a fair example of Hollywood living since I keep my private life so completely separate from my career.
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Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
