James McBride Quotes

When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense?

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappyBe HappyNowWantSenseJust

The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

John Barrasso

ChangeFutureTechnologyThinkClean

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

John O. Brennan

ProblemYouShapesDefineHow

There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

Robert Osborne

LifeEnjoy LifeTimeEnjoyChoose

I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.

Michael Horse

MeGunDownWantOutsideIndians

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Robert Browning

TimeTogetherLovedPlaceNever

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

Ruby Dee

DirectionActorWhoAppreciates

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Roy Ayers

TimeCultureSoulSlaveryLongOut

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Jones Very

LifeManWorldLongExistenceAct

When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

Christopher Poole

PeopleMeMeetNormalPrettyAlmost

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

Alice Walker

PeopleCareFindI CanLettersWill

What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'

Tyra Banks

WorkWomenMeNightDecisionsWrong

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

Rick Atkinson

LifeFatherAmericanMy LifeBorn

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