James Brown Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.
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The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.
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It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.
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I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't have a job, the harder it is to get a new job. You know, the reality is that if you're out of job, and you're looking for a job, then the new employer's going to say, 'Well, why, you know, don't you have a job now? What's wrong with you?'
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Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.