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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
Bill Nighy

Respect, Guitar, While

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
Samuel L. Jackson

Time, Movies, Watching

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Mean, Down, Place

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
James Brown

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
James Brown

Best, Son, Looking

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
James Brown

Time, Live, Down

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.
Willie Stargell

Success, Person, Both

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Al Sharpton

Father, Son, Talk

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton

God, Beer, Voice

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
Ed Markey

Dreams, Education, Decision

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Down, Trees, Fruit

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.
Anthony Horowitz

Time, Together, Again

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
Louise Brown

Before, Else, Whether

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
Elisha Cuthbert

Before, Seen, Coming

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
Lisa Loeb

Music, Experience, Musicians

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth

Music, Famous, Feeling

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'
Mira Nair

I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.
Georgina Chapman

Wedding, Before, Until

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
Boris Kodjoe

Play, After, Away

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
Don Van Vliet

Good, Important, Wrong

James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.
Mayer Hawthorne

Mean, Boring, Perfect

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.
Tim Scott

Person, Black, Talk

I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
Kristin Davis

Men, Eyes, Green

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.
NeNe Leakes

Crazy, Reality, Different

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
Roy Bean

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
Emily Procter

Love, Big, American

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
John Sergeant Wise

Tried, Slaves, Treason

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.
Emmitt Smith

Used, Imagine, Exactly

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
Bradley Whitford

Speak, Turn, Banana

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
Don Cheadle

Crisis, Black, Poor

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