C. L. R. James Quotes

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

I think America, really, is over.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

There's nobody that wants the president to be successful more than I.

I think, as a professional courtesy, when the president asks you to dinner, you go.

It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to represent that light.

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.

"Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.

Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.