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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'

We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Manchester City has a really good academy, and they're winning titles at all ages.

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I don't care! This is my life. I can't have anybody messing with my life. I just want to be Gerry Cooney, doing what I want to do. I want to be what I am. A fighter.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I'm very claustrophobic.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.