James Brown Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.
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Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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Oh providence! Oh nature! Treasure of the poor, resource of the unfortunate. The person who feels, knows your holy laws and trusts them, the person whose heart is at peace and whose body does not suffer, thanks to you is not entirely prey to adversity.
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Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.
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I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
