BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes
Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
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Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.
