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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Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
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When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.
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There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.
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“It means so much to me that they chose me to be a part of this 3x3 team. It’s always an honor to wear the USA jersey, but to be able to do it in a sport that is just now starting to grow and will be in the Olympics for the first time is amazing. I can’t wait to get to the qualifiers and to try and help get us to the Olympics.
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Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
