Blind Lemon Jefferson Quotes
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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And that's the way it is.
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.
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Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
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Politics is a game of friends.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.
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I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.
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Can you all just do me one favor? Don't take life for granted, because tomorrow isn't promised to any one of us.
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My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".
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Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
