James Earl Jones Quotes

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

James Earl Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolCollegeThoughtDoingEnjoy

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

Jimmy Cliff

MusicWritingSongThinkSomeone

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Maurice Wilkins

ProgressMistakeYouMeanGoing

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Robert Morgan

PoetryThinkPersonKindTeaching

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Michael Caine

SpeakSlowSpeedYouTwiceThings

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

Aly Khan

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The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

Spike Milligan

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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Sun Tzu

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At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Jose Carreras

RelationshipProfessionalNowFirst

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

Donald Johanson

DeathMeIdeasThinkYouEvolution

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

Chris Hardwick

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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

Claude Shannon

TimeRobotsWillVisualizeDogs

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Brad Pitt

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