BJ the Chicago Kid
Related I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own ... LEON BRIDGES DRAKE BONNIE RAITT My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, ... SARA BAREILLES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES EDMUND SPENSER My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experienc... FRED DURST Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who ... USHER Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... 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MICHAEL GRANT PARKER J. PALMER Child, as I look in your eyesMICHAEL MCDONALD I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I ... TARON EGERTON TOM WAITS NEIL SIMON KENDALL JENNER Sound comes out of a life experience. BILL LASWELL I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was f... BARRY JENKINS The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're n... EUGENE MIRMAN DHANI JONES I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. ANGELA L. WOZNIAK I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH The article is based on my experience with gossip on the show, and in my personal life. BRIANNE BURROWES NEIL SIMON I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my ... MIKE ROWE JUSTIN HALPERN Apart from my personal life, this is the happiest day of my life. DEMIS NIKOLAIDIS I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old... MARY POPE OSBORNE Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me,... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism f... ABIGAIL WASHBURN ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ BEN AFFLECK There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the expe... CHARLES IVES Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of th... ROLAND ALLEN CHRIS BROWN I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. JOHN MAHONEY WILMA MANKILLER NICKI MINAJ ADAM SANDLER I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot... DAVID LAMBERT I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write mu... ADAM HICKS ALBERT EINSTEIN At this stage in my life, I've finally come to realize that I've learned more from my children than ... CJ HECK ADAM DRIVER DONNA BRAZILE I don't see the tributes stopping. It's like with Marvin Gaye. People keep bringing him back, to kee... ERIK PARKER I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that ... KASKADE What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. No... JACK ANTONOFF Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of th... ROLAND ALLEN Life showed up today, and I showed out by living my best life. SUSIE L HILL C. JOYBELL C. JASON MORAN We like the balance that our lines get. I think we can expect more from Matt Cooke and Richard Park ... MARC CRAWFORD SOLANGE NICOLE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made spor... CRAIG SAGER MICHAEL PHELPS MAHERSHALA ALI SAMUEL SMILES Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russi... BOBBI BROWN When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from perso... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lio... NE-YO M. SCOTT PECK TAMMY DUCKWORTH The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a ki... ZAKK WYLDE CHARLIE PUTH DENNIS WEAVER
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when you don't let the experience become personal. BJ MORIN We may not have a choice in who we fall in love with~ But we do have a choice & are responsible for ... BJ MORIN A relationship betrayed taints it's past, poisons it's present & darkens it's future~ Memories moles... BJ MORIN Truth~ Is often ugly, commonly held against you, the last thing people want to hear, is Humor's best... BJ MORIN Deceptions are the liars' form of honesty. BJ MORIN Don't flatter yourself that being family or friend authorizes you to ever be rude. The closer your r... BJ MORIN Trust~ No matter how you get it, or lose it...it only happens once. BJ MORIN Needing to have the last word is for those who've already said too much~ BJ MORIN Just because you can't choose who you fall in love with, doesn't mean you aren't still responsible f... BJ MORIN All conscious thought and action are born of need and choice. Change one and you change the other. BJ MORIN True Faith in your beliefs is best served in the silence and peace of living it. BJ MORIN True faith in one's beliefs comes in the silence & peace of living it. BJ MORIN We each have control over "our" personal world. If we'd each improve ourselves~ Be happy & healthy i... BJ MORIN If you're ever wondering how someone will treat you in the future, observe how they treat others tod... BJ MORIN An honest & balanced perspective cannot grow in soil nourished with agenda. BJ MORIN In their infinite and all consuming drive to control one another, Humans are by far the biggest thre... BJ MORIN We can't choose who we fall in love with, just what we do about it... And as struggles often go betw... BJ MORIN Everyone dies from something, whether you pick your poison or not. BJ MORIN Life is about moving forward, and leaving behind people & things that can't keep up. BJ MORIN Who's life are you living, if you let another's judgment control it... BJ MORIN Sometimes affirmation of choices made brings no solace, only finality. BJ MORIN Don't take yourself too seriously, you aren't permanent. BJ MORIN Rudeness makes even the elite common. Takes intelligence to kindly say what comes to mind or not say... BJ MORIN Addictions are a state of body ones state of mind indulges BJ MORIN Happiness is getting over where it is in life you think you should be and enjoying where you're at. BJ MORIN and in the end, when you're ready to let go...sadness truly sets in~ Praying for the silence of memo... BJ MORIN God gave us free will over "ourselves," not others. BJ MORIN My words are just food for thought~ It's not my fault if you choke on them. BJ MORIN We don't get to choose what happens to us, just what we do about it. BJ MORIN Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken, rather than cut yourself t... BJ MORIN Validation...If it were food, one could starve. BJ MORIN Be grateful for opposing opinion~ If you're listening, you'll learn a different perspective, and wal... BJ MORIN Ever notice how hard it is to listen to yourself~ Let alone take your own advice? BJ MORIN Truth is often found between the lines, not in them. BJ MORIN When words are all you have, much gets left unsaid... BJ MORIN None are so limited or ignorant, as those who will not listen, who aren't capable of stepping outsid... BJ MORIN Go on adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. See the humor in life. Learn new thing... BJ MORIN Gossip~ Just because it's said, doesn't mean it's accurate or true....And it's often more telling ab... BJ MORIN It's a tool of the trade. It's effective for criminals and they're going to find them. BJ ZAPOR And then that person takes those firearms and sells them without any kind of paperwork. And then tho... BJ ZAPOR The majority of crime guns in the United States end up in the hands of a criminal through the gray m... BJ ZAPOR The number one weapon of choice is a firearm. BJ ZAPOR What happened today was incredible; we made history with three world-record jumps of 376, 399 and 40... BJ WORTH She was watching TV reports a few weeks ago, sad reports about so many people with nowhere to go, pe... BJ WIE There's a lot of speculation. I'm still learning... there's so much to learn. To be honest, I haven'... BJ WIE The only thing worse than a rude, arrogant person, is one that's related and in love with the sound ... BJ MORIN You want to end relationships cleanly without having baggage so if you see them again on the street,... BJ GALLAGHER Friends deserve better from me than to try and weasel out the back door. BJ GALLAGHER When a friendship is ending, if we could simply feel our feelings and move on, we would hurt less. BJ GALLAGHER It turns out that asynchronous audio is the secret sauce for what keeps relationships alive and fres... BJ FOGG No students show the benefit of larger class sizes. ...Test scores go down while discipline problems... BJ BROOKS Being absorbed into the school district does not add to cost savings. BJ BROOKS If our classes weren't moved to other locations, we would have 95 to 100 students in the building. BJ BROOKS The information does not prove this will be a smart decision (to close). BJ BROOKS One of the hardest things to do in life, is to get over where it is in life you think you're suppose... BJ MORIN People can afford righteousness, till they're asked to open their wallet... BJ MORIN ...Sometimes the good ya do, doesn't do ya any good... BJ MORIN How many more moments are you going to waste, complaining about moments you can't change? BJ MORIN It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense. JAMES JOYCE (CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSIONER) THE WEEKND THE WEEKND THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE WEEKND THE BIBLE THE TALMUD THE TALMUD
My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah. 
Everyone in my record collection -- Sam and Dave, Marvin Gaye, all the Motown acts, Ruth Brown, all ... 
And with unwearied fingers drawing out
The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. 
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done h... 
You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it'... 
We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it's the Tuesday that'... 
You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at... 
Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me te... 
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try t... 
Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound l... 
I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with ... 
I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life... 
I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life ... 
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying... 
When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my lif... 
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead... 
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ... 
But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people... 
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without strugg... 
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid g... 
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the ... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lesson... 
It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and s... 
Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. Th... 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
I try to separate my personal life from swimming. 
I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the ri... 
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th... 
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe... 
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just h... 
When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on... 
I never met a human being in my life who didn't like this kid. 
I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to ... 
I hated suits until I wore a Calvin Klein; they just fit me. 
I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I'... 
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the sa... 
Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderst... 
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen. 
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha... 
I'm the most boring person to talk to. 
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. 
He who promises runs in debt. 
For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude. 
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...