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.
Quotes to Explore
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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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.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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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.
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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.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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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.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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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.
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Scripture says, 'He didn't know the Lord, didn't respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.' I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.
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I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
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Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
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In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
