James A. Baldwin Quotes
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
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I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
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You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires...' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
