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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	I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.   
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	Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.   
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	I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be nominated' rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced - the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.   
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	Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.   
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	In animation, no one gets to see your face, so you can really mess up with your voice like I did 'ParaNorman;' I was a bully in that, which was so much fun to do. In 'How to Train Your Dragon,' I'm a little Viking character. So, it's kind of exciting to play these roles that you normally wouldn't get to play in a live-action movie.   
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	I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					