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 always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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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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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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It's a Man's Man's Man's World
