James Baldwin Quotes

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Jim Gerlach

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First ladies, you know, we look at Michelle Obama, and we look at most first ladies, and they seem like they have it all. You know, they live in the White House, they go to state dinners, they ride on Air Force One, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But first ladies do often feel that they are given short shrift or forgotten or left at the margins.

Jodi Kantor

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With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

John Burnside

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The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

John Oates

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It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

John Hillcoat

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Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

Anna Paquin

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I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

Matt Damon

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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Sting

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One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Roseanne Barr

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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

Mitch Albom

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