Boozoo Chavis Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.
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Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
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Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
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I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.
