James Earl Jones Quotes

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

James Earl Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

John Abizaid

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Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

Michael Flatley

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I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Amanda Seyfried

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As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.

Sterling K. Brown

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I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

Roger Deakins

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I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.

Robert Whittaker

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I want to be the one to make a change, like when my father started his music. It's about the message. Coffee is a vehicle to create change.

Rohan Marley

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The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

Mitt Romney

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Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Vivekananda

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I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

Todd Rundgren

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