James Earl Jones Quotes

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

  James Earl Jones

  Guides, Lost, Ifs

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• One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

  James Earl Jones

  Love, Life, Heart

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

  James Earl Jones

  Crush, Encounters, Littles

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• Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

  James Earl Jones

  Cutting, Important, Speech

  "A Lifetime of Achievement, but James Earl Jones Isn't Done". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2009.

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• Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

  James Earl Jones

  Dream, Shining, Needs

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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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.

  James Earl Jones

  Trying, Worried, Ifs

  "From stutterer to star: How James Earl Jones found his voice". "PBS News Hour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 12, 2014.

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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.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Baseball, Army

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• You don't build a bond without being present.

  James Earl Jones

  Ties

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

  James Earl Jones

  Drama, Writing, Black History

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

  James Earl Jones

  Father, Believe, Internet

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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.

  James Earl Jones

  Angel, World, Abraham

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• I found my voice in books.

  James Earl Jones

  Book, Voice, Found

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• Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

  James Earl Jones

  Valentine's Day

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• Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

  James Earl Jones

  Space, I Loved You, Knows

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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.

  James Earl Jones

  Indulge In, Race, Events

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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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.

  James Earl Jones

  Laughter, Children, Fall

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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• The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

  James Earl Jones

  Black, Want, Lasts

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• You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

  James Earl Jones

  Thinking, Feelings, Theatre

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• Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

  James Earl Jones

  Money, Children, Thinking

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• Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

  James Earl Jones

  Falling In Love, Love You, Trying

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• Love is just love, it can never be explained.

  James Earl Jones

  Love, Sick, Impress A Girl

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

  James Earl Jones

  Ties, Magic, Brotherhood

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• The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

  James Earl Jones

  Stars, Goal, Hollywood

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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