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James Baldwin Quotes

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

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Beautiful History American Said More

I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That's a guitar hero for me.

Change Music Hero Me Think Guitar

There are plenty of easy things that you can do from the comfort of your own home to get you started on the path of giving back.

Home Path Giving You Back Comfort

Gluten-free pasta is not a focus, which I would rather have gluten-free pasta. Hey, if I have to have regular pasta... It is what it is.

Metta World Peace

Focus Pasta It Is What It Is Would

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Business Money Fool Ethics People

I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control.

Work Home Me Control America Doing

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

Think Country Him Fine Barack Obama

It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.

Tough Better Acting Hollywood Okay

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Motivational Life Believe In Yourself

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Home Travel Me Land More Wild

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Arianna Huffington

Man Become Only Be A Man Harder

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Anthony Hopkins

Job Tools Steel Company Working

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Richard Linklater

Age Always Being Being Lied To Lied

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