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Edward Brooke Quotes

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1919 - January 3, 2015

Topics

Never Boston Study University Much

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

Men Me Free Color Thought Others

I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

Car Health Together Travel Insurance

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Great Soul Poetry Should Amaze Does

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

John Mellencamp

Business Age People Young Want Even

Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

Life Work Friend Music Best Me

I'm a real laid-back person.

Michael Beasley

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

Life More She Real Smiles Pleasure

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

Stephen Chbosky

Life Music Identity Me My Life Find

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

Father Man Do The Right Thing Me You

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

Money People Rules Goal Wall Street

It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.

Knowledge Common Most Many Guys

My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life.

Life Me Baby Normal Much Very

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