James A. Baldwin Quotes
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
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Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.
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You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
