When people cannot use you,
They will call you selfish and mean,
They don’t know your struggles,
They don’t know where you have been
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/klōZHər/ Noun
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Start by donating one dollar to a charity
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Exit
CHARMAINE J. FORDE If you can't enhance, elevate or encourage-Exit
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William Shakespeare
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CHARMAINE J FORDE If it doesn't educate you, enlighten you, or empower you
-Escape posthaste!!!
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J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS People have to do what they want to do.
J MASCIS All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we...
J MASCIS I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J MASCIS It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t...
J MASCIS I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J MASCIS I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t...
J MASCIS I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J MASCIS When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J MASCIS Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall...
J MASCIS I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
J MASCIS The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to ...
J ALLARD We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the con...
J ALLARD Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J ALLARD Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
J ALLARD When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
J ALLARD I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real har...
J ALLARD