James Brown Quotes
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.
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I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
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The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.
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Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.
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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way. I can say "No," and nobody's going to be pissed off or breathe down my neck. I can draw the line and take breaks when I want to. I try not to. And getting to develop other artists is something I've always wanted to do.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”
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This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
