James A. Baldwin Quotes
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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The hymn 'Amazing Grace' is so inspirational - I wish I'd written it.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
