James Earl Jones Quotes

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

James Earl Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1931

Topics

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It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.

John Carmack

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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

Amiri Baraka

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I've been on the road since 1983. Nothing ever changed, even when I was doing TV and movies.

Sinbad

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The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Robert Crumb

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Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

Ron Conway

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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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I never, ever objected to hard work.

Dominique Moceanu

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I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

April Winchell

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If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.

Ashton Eaton

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I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through his house while his mother applauded and cheered him on. He was so proud. It was such a beautiful thing but bittersweet because I knew his spirit would change soon: that he'd become self-aware and ashamed at some level.

Perfume Genius

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I never wanted to be Michael Jordan, although I would like to trade bank accounts.

Scottie Pippen

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