James A. Baldwin Quotes
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and this is more of a lighter type of show.
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A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.
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Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.
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But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.
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I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous.
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Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
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You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
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Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
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I always look to my mom for strength and courage when I need it.
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When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
