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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
-
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.
-
There's a lot more to me than just power.
-
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
-
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.
-
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!
-
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.
-
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
-
I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
-
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
-
The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
-
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
-
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.
-
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
-
Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
-
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.
-
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
-
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
-
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
-
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
-
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
-
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
-
There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
-
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
