James Brown Quotes
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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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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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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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As I walked towards travel, that illusion of liberation, I strangely felt myself walking back into childhood.
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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
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Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
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I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
