James Brown Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I like things simple.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
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I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.
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People in my band and in my life see me as someone who is seeking out chaos, and that's why it comes to me. And these people who have never met me say because of when I was born and how the planets are aligned, chaos sees me as a portal.
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I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.
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His persona was what people responded to with shock.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
