James Brown Quotes

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

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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.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Works

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• I was physically abused and I retaliated.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Physically

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Early

• My literary success meant nothing to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Success
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Future
  • See
  • Games

• 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.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Working
  • Friday

• What musicals need is a new me.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Me
  • Need
  • New

• Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Prayer
  • End
  • Leaving

• This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Up
  • Time

• Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

  

  Jim Bridenstine
  • Time
  • Manipulation

• Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Beautiful
  • Texas

• Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Thinking
  • Self
  • Meditation

• No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Work
  • Believe

• The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

  

  James Brown
  • Time
  • Live
  • Hardest