Boozoo Chavis Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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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 speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
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It will go down as one of the great moments in sportsmanship. He could have hugged his mates and celebrated, but he chose to put his arm around me.
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And to his eyeThere was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.
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Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.
