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Terrible Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,…
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested…
- The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived…
- There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
More Terrible Quotes
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
- There is something great and terrible about suicide. — Honore de Balzac
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- I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
- Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and… — Alan Ball
- A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac
- Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
- Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing! — P T Barnum