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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So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.
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There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.
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I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
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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.
