James Brown Quotes
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
Quotes to Explore
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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I've been very lucky.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
