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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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
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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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There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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What makes America great is that we're all so different.
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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.
