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“Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.”
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“I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.”
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“Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.”
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“But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.”
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“It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.”
Source : 1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.
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“God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful.”
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“Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.”
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“Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.”
Source : Jean Nicolas Grou (1876). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist”, p.206