James Brown Quotes

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

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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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Kiss

• 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.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rules
  • Follow
  • Nobody

• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• 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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Only
  • Medals

• 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!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Long
  • Live
  • Happily

• 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.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Best

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Light

• The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Up
  • Women
  • Business

• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Compassion

• My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Eventually

• My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • Important
  • Song

• I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Good
  • Long
  • Heart

• Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Performing