Jason Reynolds Quotes
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
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Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.
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We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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I love, loved, loved 'We Real Cool' by Gwendolyn Brooks.
