James Brown Quotes

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• I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Edge

• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Think
  • Career
  • Acting

• My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Man
  • Simple

• Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • School
  • Think
  • Style

• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Kids
  • Anxiety
  • Pressure

• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Building
  • Differences
  • Out

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Stories
  • Anchor

• Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

  

  Kendrick Meek

• As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up

• When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.

  

  Jon Fishman

• Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

  

  James Brown
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