James A. Baldwin Quotes
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
Natalia Kills
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
Felix Dennis
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
Harland Williams
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
Harmony Korine
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
Adam Hamilton
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
Tamara Ecclestone
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
Rand Paul
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
Damien Fahey
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
Larry the Cable Guy
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
Eddie Huang
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If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.
Ashton Kutcher
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It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.
Haruki Murakami
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The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.
John Grant
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Jeremy Taylor
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin
