James Brown Quotes
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I talk a lot. I'm very decisive.
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What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.
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A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
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Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.
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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
