James Brown Quotes

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

James Brown

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• Dance
• Chance
• Bigs
• Dancing
• Fine
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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded...

  

  Hannah Webster Foster
  • Family
  • Conversation
  • Serenity

• We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations 'provoking or justifying war'. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the UK are going to war for a new set of reasons (partly undisclosed) while continuing to adduce the old set of reasons (which in this case do not cohere or even overlap).

  

  Martin Amis
  • War
  • Present

• It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

  

  F. J. Foakes-Jackson
  • Trying
  • Kindness
  • Clever

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Sleep
  • Dance

• Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

  

  James Brown
  • Giving
  • Dance
  • Chance