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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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.
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I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.
