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You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.Why didn't he finish her?Why couldn't he finish her?

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade