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James Earl Jones Quotes: No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
         

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.


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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.



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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.



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Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.



If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.



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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.



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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.



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In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.



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Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.





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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.



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At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.



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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.



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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.



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Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!



When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?

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Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.




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