James Brown Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I grew up on films.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
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I love the healthy exchange of information.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.
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I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
