James A. Baldwin Quotes
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
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I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
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I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
