James A. Baldwin Quotes
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
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Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
