James A. Baldwin Quotes
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
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I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
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With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
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I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
