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Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. — James Baldwin

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. — James Baldwin

Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did. — James Baldwin

Cotton is my life. — Billy Baldwin

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. — Daniel Baldwin

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure. — Kate Baldwin

Books taught me that things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me to everyone who is alive and who had ever been alive. — James Baldwin

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That's what the old woman told me, and I listened. — L'Poni Baldwin

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James Baldwin

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself. — James Baldwin

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it — James Baldwin

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image. — Monica Baldwin

Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented. — Stephen Baldwin

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. — James Baldwin

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen. — James A. Baldwin

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive. — James A. Baldwin

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

Our own government has become our enemy. — Chuck Baldwin

You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people. — Stephen Baldwin

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. — James A. Baldwin

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. — James A. Baldwin

The purpose of education ... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions. — James A. Baldwin

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win. — James A. Baldwin

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee. — James A. Baldwin

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage. — James A. Baldwin

One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, — James A. Baldwin

I don't want to alarm anyone, but everywhere we go I see Alec Baldwin. It's like he's following us. — Olivia Sudjic

I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for? — James Baldwin

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. — Cecil Baldwin

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country. — Stephen Baldwin

Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style. — Billy Baldwin

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people. — Daniel Baldwin

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do. — Alec Baldwin

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language! — Alec Baldwin

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin

When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way. — Jane Krakowski

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. — James Baldwin

Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations. — Faith Baldwin

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers. — James Baldwin

It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you — James Baldwin

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. — James Baldwin

Americans are not saving enough for retirement. — Tammy Baldwin

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly. — Alec Baldwin

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. — Rosecrans Baldwin

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps. — William Baldwin

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with. — Alec Baldwin

I am what time, circumstance, and history have made of me, certainly, but i am also much more than that. So are we all. — James Baldwin

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. — James Baldwin

And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life. — James Baldwin

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. — Alec Baldwin

If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad. — James Baldwin

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. — Daniel Baldwin

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms. — James Baldwin

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin

Man cannot live by profit alone. — James A. Baldwin

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted. — James Baldwin

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. — Christina Baldwin

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again. — Rosecrans Baldwin

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. — Adam Baldwin

The closest I ever came to a near death experience was living in LA. — Deirdra Baldwin

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. — Rosecrans Baldwin

One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin

Whoever debases others is debasing himself. — James Baldwin

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire. — James Baldwin

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. — James Baldwin

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic. — Alec Baldwin

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society. — Christina Baldwin

There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it. — James Baldwin

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty. — John Baldwin Buckstone

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. — James Baldwin

When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books. — Stephen Baldwin

You cannot fix what you will not face. — James A. Baldwin

all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One — James Baldwin

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. — Christina Baldwin

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie. — Alec Baldwin

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve. — Baldwin Spencer

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations — Faith Baldwin

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes. — James A. Baldwin

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career. — Daniel Baldwin

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in. — Alec Baldwin

I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio. — Adam Baldwin

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. — James A. Baldwin

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation. — Alec Baldwin

My journal is my life's companion. — Christina Baldwin

She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain. — James Baldwin

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something - I am God. — Alec Baldwin

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. — James Baldwin

Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit. — Rosecrans Baldwin

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. — Christina Baldwin

These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned. — James Baldwin

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? — Stephen Baldwin

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James Baldwin

I think work begets work. — Adam Baldwin

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. — Faith Baldwin