James Brown Quotes
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write a news story. Which means that a few years from now, a robot could be writing this column. And who will read it? Well, there might be a lot of us hanging around with lots of free time on our hands.
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
