Each year, I take it upon myself as dean of students to go and talk to the freshman band members by themselves. I let them know that in order to be a part of the Southern University Marching Band, they don't have to take certain physical or mental abuse to be a part of the band.
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Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Many students felt violated by what happened. But the students responded positively as a band unit i... SIDNEY LANIER I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I... WES BORLAND A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH JON: I played a little trumpet in high school, you know, in a marching band. I had one of those thin... JON & RICHIE (BON JOVI) To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic en... PETER HOOK A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank. FRED WILLARD Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to ... EDDIE VAN HALEN I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band. JENNY LEWIS The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted s... CHARLIE DANIELS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ... EDMUND PHELPS Another very significant program that was enabled by the school building changes was the fifth grade... JAMES RAYNER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members. Or if the drummer was the original m... BRUCE HOWARD I don't want to go and see a band that has no original members, ... Or if the drummer was the origin... BRUCE HOWARD My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs. ADAM JONES To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an A... MICHAEL STIPE I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band... BUN E. CARLOS The band as an entity has evolved and matured with their stage performance and song writing. I could... MARK ANDERSON Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was f... MATT CAMERON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned sev... MARK RICE I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look lik... GENE SIMMONS Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer. ADRIAN BELEW How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is proba... ACE FREHLEY The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to ... JONNY GREENWOOD What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are tog... GERRY BECKLEY I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something. WIZ KHALIFA I've been preparing to be a drum major since I was a freshman. I always wanted to be more actively i... AARON HIMES I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look... GENE SIMMONS I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that... CHAD SMITH It's really wonderful to be able to put your whole self into something. As a band, creating new mate... LEIGH NASH Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN We consciously set out to not be a Southern rock band. It was a matter of time before it'd all come ... CHRIS HENDERSON Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band. JOSH KLINGHOFFER In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band. MALIN AKERMAN You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything. NELLIE MCKAY
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ARNOLD BENNETT It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a... ARNOLD BENNETT The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ... ARNOLD BENNETT We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var... ARNOLD BENNETT A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin... ARNOLD BENNETT Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ARNOLD BENNETT Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al... ARNOLD BENNETT The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world... ARNOLD BENNETT If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv... ARNOLD BENNETT It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. ARNOLD BENNETT I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. TONY BENNETT All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ARNOLD BENNETT