James McBride Quotes

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1957

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DaughterGreatManThinkGreat Man

I can't sing anything other than country!

Joe Nichols

CountryAnythingSingThanOther

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

John Dryden

TruthFaceLovedSeenOnlyNeeds

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

John Waters

MusicArtStepGenerationYouWay

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

John Ridley

GoodFocusBelieveTragedyReal

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

Steve Erickson

ResponsibilityThinkingQuestionsSee

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Stanislav Grof

EarthBeliefCulturesSystemReturn

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

Robert Collier

AlwaysHeelsDemandSupply

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

Ron Kind

AgingAmericaTrafficClearlyLock

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Mary Ritter Beard

BeautyLearnSeeMustDelicateLike

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

Lord Robertson

YearNewThreeWillBecomeOthers

'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can't imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on 'The X Factor.'

Jools Holland

StarsPeopleTearsWorldBuilding

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

Jordan Spieth

NewKindAggressiveClassicAlways

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