James Brown Quotes

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

James Brown

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • May
  • High

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Better

• I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • College
  • Really
  • Seriously

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Son
  • Grow

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Art
  • Hope

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Film
  • Role

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, 'Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.' At the end of the six months, I would say, 'Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months.'

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • Work
  • Career

• No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

  

  Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
  • Band
  • Journalist
  • Alan Paul

• I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Movies
  • Integrity
  • Received

• I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

  

  James Brown
  • Job
  • Play
  • Shoes