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Levon Helm Quotes

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 26, 1940 - April 19, 2012

Topics

Best School Smart Parents Me High

I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I was growing up, there were so many black people in TV. That's just the world I was around.

Jermaine Fowler

People Growing Up World Black Fresh

I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.

Jennifer Connelly

Religion School Me Bible Feel Hands

When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath.

Fear Government Growing Understand

Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.

John Shelby Spong

Book Christian New Will Reveal Used

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

Space Create Want Breathe Blackness

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

Work Donald Trump Will Minimum Wage

It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.

Capitalism Name Peaceful Myth Only

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

Mikheil Saakashvili

Vision Respect Peaceful Desire Right

There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.

Josh Hutcherson

Movies Fix Need Next Twilight Fan

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.

I Am Proud Say Pro-Life Very Am

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Justice Peace Training Influence

Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.

Love People Feet Someone Fall India

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