James A. Baldwin Quotes
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James A. Baldwin
Quotes to Explore
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
Landon Donovan
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
Naval Ravikant
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
Kate Brown
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Joanne Rowling
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Rachel Cusk
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
Nancy Kress
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
Eddie Money
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
Faye Marsay
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I love this stuff - bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology - and what the future holds.
Abigail Johnson
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
Hanya Yanagihara
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
Pat Metheny
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
Taylor Swift
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Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.
Kaskade
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Rachael Taylor
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Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
Karl Urban
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I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
Richard Marx
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The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
Elizabeth Edwards
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Louise Brooks
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I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.
Hillary Clinton
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James A. Baldwin
