James Brown Quotes
I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.
James Brown
Quotes to Explore
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Patrick Lencioni
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
Sal Albanese
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
Aaron Huey
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
Aaron Neville
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
Karen Joy Fowler
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
Patricia Schroeder
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus
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In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.
B. F. Skinner
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While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.
Gary Herbert
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For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
Eric Fellner
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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.
James Brown
