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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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.
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[Donald] Trump faces the perhaps accumulation of all the wealth in the world on the head of [Marco] Rubio, because Rubio's the last gasp of hawks and establishment Republicans.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
