James A. Baldwin Quotes

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

James A. Baldwin

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• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Learning
  • Much
  • Perfecting

• There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Doubt

• I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Family
  • Think
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • You
  • Stop

• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • Tiger
  • Stick

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Thought

• There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Losing
  • Philadelphia

• The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Majority

• 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.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Think
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Stop

• Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Understanding

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • America

• 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.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Done
  • Joy
  • Unique

• My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Family
  • She
  • History

• I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.

  

  Norm Crosby
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Background

• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Sex
  • Humor

• Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Community
  • Terrorism

• I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Team
  • Player

• To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

  

  James A. Baldwin