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"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
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"We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe."
"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."
"A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force."
"They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group."
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
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