James A. Baldwin Quotes

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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• If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Compete

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Long
  • Success

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Words
  • Ideas

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  

  Adam Grant
  • School
  • College
  • Doing

• I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Leave
  • Any
  • Manuscripts

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • World
  • Law
  • Day

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Journey

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • London
  • Street
  • Bond

• I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Work
  • Career
  • Black

• The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• '8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

  

  Omar Benson Miller

• I'm always saying I won't get involved with an actor again, but then I realize how silly that is. The men I meet most often are actors.

  

  Kathryn Harrold
  • Men
  • Silly

• No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Time