James McBride Quotes

John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

John Madden

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Robert Hall

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

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It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.

Sukarno

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Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

Skylar Grey

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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan

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Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

Juan Williams

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The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

Joseph Bruchac

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I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Dita Von Teese

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I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Courteney Cox

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As long as we keep winning, that's all it's about. But it's evident I do need the ball.

Antonio Brown

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I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

Tucker Max

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