James Baldwin Quotes

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Joe Biden

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It's hard to act with just your jaw.

Joel Kinnaman

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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.

Jennifer Coolidge

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I really thought I knew Johnny Cash. I thought I didn't need to spend a lot of time researching his life. But I wasn't within 50 miles of knowing Johnny Cash. I knew he was a good guy and a dedicated artist, but I didn't know the demons, the struggles he had in his personal life.

Robert Hilburn

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I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

Michael Gove

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It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Michael Haneke

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Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

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In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Rose Kennedy

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American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Michael Mandelbaum

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Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.

Mo Farah

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There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Branford Marsalis

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I've been on the road I think probably three years.

Brad Paisley

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