James Brown Quotes

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

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Retire for what What would I do I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

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My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

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Everything is my mistake. I should have done everything on Sunday. I should have gotten gas, barbecue coal, lights, a flashlight. I can only blame myself.

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I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

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The kids played hard coming off Christmas break. Mitch Frei did a great job leading the team.

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It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

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musical genius.

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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

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A flat fee of 20 a month is unheard of. With this annuity, you don't have the burden of the mortality and expense charge. Over time, this is a huge advantage.

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We lost a genius and we lost my brother, ... You've lost a cornerstone of good, and that hurts real bad.

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Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

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Life philosophy I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.

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Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

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I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

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It was a wonderful, fascinating chemistry. There were some real strong personalities there, and my ego was in place. I tried to do that as deftly as possible.

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Aaron's gifted with making beautiful sounds.

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After a few years we found that these items didn't work. It took a lot of time to deal with them, plus they took up a lot of space. So we put the other stuff aside and migrated back to the book business, something we really felt very comfortable with.

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This is an area that the chain stores don't bother with. We provide a personal service to the individual looking for a particular book. It may take us a while and a lot of research but we usually deliver.

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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Every body needs that.

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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

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We've been in this business ever since we've been married. We enjoy each other and we enjoy what we're doing. How lucky can you get

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Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

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My mom didn't allow us to watch that much television. I was involved in basketball and got home late, then would have homework to do. But I liked aSky King' and Bill Cosby and Robert Culp in aI Spy.'

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