James A. Baldwin Quotes
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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'I have come to kill you.'The death’s heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.'
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When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
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'The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.'
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I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
