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I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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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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Love is just love, it can never be explained.
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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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Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
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Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.
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