T. Geronimo Johnson quote: "The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop."

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the ...
GERONIMO

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was...
GERONIMO

With all the activities of cutting down the trees out there, inside, they were depositing all the bi...
GERONIMO

The dead are here. They are burying them all together,
GERONIMO

I had no weapon, nor did I hardly wish to fight, neither did I contemplate recovering the bodies of ...
GERONIMO

There's more per capita than any other place in the world in Texas, ... Country music just brings th...
GERONIMO

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...
GERONIMO

Believing that in a wise way it is good to go to church, and that associating with Christians would ...
GERONIMO

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this hono...
GERONIMO

Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that...
GERONIMO

We took an oath not to do any wrong to each other or to scheme against each other.
GERONIMO

There has never been a hurricane here. The residents don't know the threat from the wind. There's a ...
GERONIMO

While living I want to live well.
GERONIMO

The market has no support. Investors are still waiting for economic measures and new developments in...
GERONIMO

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds...
GERONIMO

The estimates for Katrina are at the lower end of expectations. The estimates for Rita are expected,...
GERONIMO

I want to find their remains to give then a dignified burial.
GERONIMO

The market will continue as it is without great variation until the government announces concrete ec...
GERONIMO

I won't ever forget her appearing in my show.
SARAH GERONIMO

I'm so excited. I hope I don't get nervous when I perform with her together on stage.
SARAH GERONIMO

It is important because it transmits a clear sense of shared responsibility on the part of Mexico.
GERONIMO GUTIERREZ

This problem . . . isn't attributable to only one of the two countries. There is demand (for drugs),...
GERONIMO GUTIERREZ

Perhaps we are at the most important moment in this debate in the last five, six years. ... Anything...
GERONIMO GUTIERREZ

The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements...
LUCIO DI GERONIMO

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON

He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON

Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON

Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
JOHNSON

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
T-PAIN

Most geniuses are weird.
T-PAIN

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or w...
T-PAIN

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go giv...
T-PAIN

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-PAIN

I just keep my cars to myself.
T-PAIN

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti...
T-PAIN

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN

The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
T-PAIN

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-PAIN

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-PAIN

I've got to be sensible sometimes.
T-PAIN

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
MR. T

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is...
ICE T

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
ICE T

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
ICE T

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot...
ICE T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma...
ICE T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
ICE T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ...
ICE T

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say...
ICE T

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo...
ICE T

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
ICE T

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&...
ICE T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider...
ICE T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th...
MR. T

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the...
T-PAIN

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th...
T-PAIN

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
T-PAIN

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don...
T-PAIN

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN

I write my music.
T-PAIN

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-PAIN

I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
T-PAIN

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
T-PAIN

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to...
T-PAIN

I do YouTube my cars a lot.
T-PAIN

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, s...
T-PAIN

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to s...
T-PAIN

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-PAIN

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was...
T-PAIN

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-PAIN

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.
T-PAIN

You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ...
T-PAIN

Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that befo...
T-PAIN

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who p...
T-PAIN

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
T-PAIN

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
MR. T

The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the ...
JAY T

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
ICE T

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or...
MR. T

My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven't - I...
PUSHA T

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn...
ICE T

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
T-PAIN

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
MR. T

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you w...
ICE T

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
MR. T

Diet food is for lazy people.
ICE-T

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pr...
MR. T

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of ...
PUSHA T

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the peop...
MR. T

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
MR. T

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
ICE T

You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T...
MR. T

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I...
ICE T

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac...
ICE T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we al...
ICE T

It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.
ICE T.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.
PUSHA T

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
ICE T

My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T

I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn...
PUSHA T

Gravity is my best friend. Gravity keeps me and my family together.
LEANNE T.

When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ...
PUSHA T

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps...
ICE T

I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are ine...
PUSHA T

I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a ta...
PUSHA T

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,...
MR. T

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
ICE T

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
ICE T

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
MR. T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion...
ICE T

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ...
AZRA T.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone...
MR. T

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the rad...
ICE T

He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerfu...
T. MOUNTEBANK

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - rea...
MR. T

I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ...
PUSHA T

Time never changes things..It only give us the space to change it.
RAMANATHAN T

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
ICE-T

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st...
ICE T

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
MR. T

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's...
MR. T

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w...
ICE T

Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems.
SAKTHIVEL T

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'...
ICE T

You can think about killing yourself a thousand times a day and each time it gets just a little bit ...
T DOGMAN

The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
T. GILLING

I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be...
PUSHA T

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading...
MR. T

Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL

I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me...
T. MOUNTEBANK

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c...
ICE T

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops...
ICE T

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T

That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it w...
ICE-T

Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fightin...
ICE-T

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
ICE-T

We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.

Piper
T. GREENWOOD

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things...
MR. T

I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with ...
PUSHA T

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth...
MR. T

I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It rea...
PUSHA T

Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the commo...
T. KINGFISHER

Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ...
T. ARCHMAN

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want i...
ICE T

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
ICE T

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
ICE T

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksg...
MONICA JOHNSON

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who ju...
ZACH JOHNSON

I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
ZACH JOHNSON

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to ge...
ZACH JOHNSON

When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we real...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get t...
ZACH JOHNSON

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And some...
ZACH JOHNSON

I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to ca...
ZACH JOHNSON

There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west s...
ZACH JOHNSON

Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot...
ZACH JOHNSON

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course h...
ZACH JOHNSON

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwe...
ZACH JOHNSON

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, conten...
ZACH JOHNSON

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what...
ZACH JOHNSON

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a ...
ZACH JOHNSON

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted...
ZACH JOHNSON

I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opp...
ZACH JOHNSON

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great m...
ZACH JOHNSON

I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, a...
ZACH JOHNSON

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to se...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of ...
ZACH JOHNSON

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go...
ZACH JOHNSON

I like to look good on the golf course.
ZACH JOHNSON

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
SHAWN JOHNSON

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

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