James Brown Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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You can't live for a moment that may not happen. You need to live in the moment.
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I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
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I'm twice as old, but I feel good.
