J.F. Baldwin Quotes

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

I think work begets work.

You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

I actually believe he is the new Cilla Black.

One thing I really don't like seeing is when girls do a full contour and then foundation and then powder and then more contour and it's a full face of makeup. I don't like that at all.

My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

All racists are irresponsible.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

Learning is just remembering slowly, like simmer coming to boil.

The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me.

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

We can make America what America must become.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Don't take forever to make a decision, but don't make it too fast.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.