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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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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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 a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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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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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
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Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.
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I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.
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I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
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Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
