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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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life."

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Donna Grant

"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

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Donna Grant

"There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter."

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Donna Grant

"In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!"

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Donna Grant

"A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down."

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Donna Grant

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

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Donna Grant

"My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals."

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Donna Grant

"My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not. Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things. I can easily reach from A to B. I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D. And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z."

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Donna Grant

"You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!"

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James Earl Jones
"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

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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."

Time

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James Earl Jones
"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."

War

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James Earl Jones
"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

Society

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James Earl Jones
"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."

Content

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James Earl Jones
"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers."

Books

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James Earl Jones
"When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that."

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James Earl Jones
"I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time."

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James Earl Jones
"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."

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James Earl Jones
"And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race."

Actor

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