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James Blake Quotes

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1979

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Never Make Wanted Before Sounds

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Good I Am Generation Done Troubled

People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That's a blessing.

Anjelah Johnson

Live Blessing Money People Me Pay

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

Work People Research Enjoy Kind

In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.

Justice People India Islam Ignorant

I have this concept that I will create a creche for old people. Yes, a creche, how when you go to work you drop kids to their creche and there they mingle with other kids and at the same time are in safe hands and you know they have been looked after.

Work Time People Hands You Create

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Losing Political America More Rural

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

Yourself World Direction Better Seen

There's a lot that machine learning can't do that humans can do very, very well.

Learning Well Machine Humans Very

I always try to be a reliable friend.

Friend Try Always Reliable

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

Good Time Cold Tough Reading Doing

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Violin Started Well Guess Classical

The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 - doesn't disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.

Me Serving University Cambridge Fact

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