James Brown Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
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The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.
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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
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When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.
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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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It's a Man's Man's Man's World
