James Brown Quotes
As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Accept loss forever.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
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My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
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Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
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As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
