Jimmy Jean-Louis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you are a man of power, your decisions affect so many people and sometimes it can appear to be extremely evil, when really you just have a specific goal to reach. I had to understand that state of mind because what was most important was the bigger goal not the smaller decisions.
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It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.
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I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place, a new culture, a new language. I used that pressure to adapt, to do better than everyone else, and I moved around quite a bit as well.
-- Jimmy Jean-Louis
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance Âand aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
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When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
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