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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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Personal Development
"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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Personal Development
"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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Personal Development
"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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Personal Development
"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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Personal Development
"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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Personal Development
"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
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"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."
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"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."
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"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time."
Time
"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"
Father
"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"
Injustice
"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."
Battle
"Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors."
Neighbors
"Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches."
Music
"Thank the good Lord for a job."
Job
"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
Imagination
"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now."
Now
"There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs."
People
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