Boozoo Chavis Quotes
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.