James A. Baldwin Quotes
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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I've always had Paul Smith wallets for some reason.
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If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
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I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
