James Brown Quotes
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I'm a dork!
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
