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James Earl Jones

"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."

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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."

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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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"First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process."

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"Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground."

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"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."

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"It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club."

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"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."

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"I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami."

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"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."

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"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."

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"Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit."

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James Earl Jones
"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."
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"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."
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"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us."
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"And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life."
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"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."
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"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"
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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."
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"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing."
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"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."
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"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."
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