In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.


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Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES
I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES
Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES
A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES
If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES
I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES
I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER
It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES
In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES
If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH
But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE
We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI