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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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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Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
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Worms are the intestines of the earth.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.
