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Jim Brown Quotes

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 17, 1936

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Time Trying You Right Everything

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Life Identity Fighting My Life Much

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Life Challenge Expectations End You

I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.

People World Society Think Living

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

Life Father Mother Me Brain America

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

Singing Intuitive Instinctive

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it.

Michelle Alexander

America Say Why Movement Racial

I don't do any special preparations before recording any number, nothing like deep breathing or meditation.

Deep Meditation Nothing Special Like

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Science Art Me Feeling Museum Same

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny... You give my son back, and I'll pay my taxes.

Son I Am Penny You Back Taxes

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

Good Luck Good Luck Thought Wave

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

Change People City Evil Doing You

But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul.

Soul Mind More Here Accepted Which

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