BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I hate competition.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.
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I'm a pretty happy guy.
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I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
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I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.
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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
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I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.
