Charles McGee quote: "They told us, â€˜You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' ... I wanted folks to respect me for my ability and not the happenstance of my birth. If you want respect, you have to give respect."

Our country is more diverse than it has ever been, ... What is the strength of our country? It's the...
CHARLES MCGEE

I'm proud they're in a unit carrying our name. That's very meaningful from the heritage point of vie...
CHARLES MCGEE

They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' .....
CHARLES MCGEE

Our story is not just about what we did, but about education and taking advantage of opportunities t...
CHARLES MCGEE

The students keep you young. You feel like you're 15, but you can't act like it.
CHARLES MCGEE

I used to do a lot of outreach because no one liked having a waste management site like ours near th...
CHARLES MCGEE

Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
BARRY MCGEE

My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
BARRY MCGEE

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan ...
BARRY MCGEE

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art w...
BARRY MCGEE

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and m...
BARRY MCGEE

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. B...
BARRY MCGEE

I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s...
BARRY MCGEE

I'm really into California art from the '60s.
BARRY MCGEE

If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
BARRY MCGEE

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyon...
BARRY MCGEE

Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries ...
BARRY MCGEE

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It t...
BARRY MCGEE

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work ...
BARRY MCGEE

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in Ne...
BARRY MCGEE

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to...
BARRY MCGEE

Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire m...
BARRY MCGEE

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum wo...
BARRY MCGEE

As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
BARRY MCGEE

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graff...
BARRY MCGEE

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings the...
BARRY MCGEE

For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, pai...
BARRY MCGEE

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
MOLLY MCGEE

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every tim...
MAX MCGEE

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.
FRANK MCGEE

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
BARRY MCGEE

I remember being on Sabine Lake at midnight, and Hurricane Rita was several miles offshore. Standing...
BEN MCGEE

Once we identified the instrumentation we needed, we had to act fast. It was September 20th, and the...
BEN MCGEE

We basically got everything done in the nick of time. It was very intense.
BEN MCGEE

A database is being built to house all of the data we collected, and by displaying the data in a tim...
BEN MCGEE

We've just got to play through it. Looking back, watching film, watching where we break down and wha...
ANDRE MCGEE

Last year all the guys supported us; we wanted to do the same thing. Just show some love for our tea...
ANDRE MCGEE

I think our chances (in the Big East Tournament) are real good. We're ready to play anybody, regardl...
ANDRE MCGEE

That kind of did take some pressure off. We were worried about not making the conference tournament ...
ANDRE MCGEE

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.
ANDRE MCGEE

We've just got to play through it. Looking back, watching film, watching where we break down and wha...
ANDRE MCGEE

That's just how things panned out.
ANDRE MCGEE

I don't know how it went in. From its trajectory, I was sure it was going to hit the front of the ri...
ANDRE MCGEE

We were just walking the ball up the floor and didn't even realize it. Some of the teams we play, th...
ANDRE MCGEE

There are a lot of people who would build there if they'd change the flood zone. There are a lot of ...
ANNIE MCGEE

They don't care. If they cared, they wouldn't let what their parents worked so hard for fall down.
ANNIE MCGEE

You could buy anything there ... a full-service store with a meat market and everything. My dad prov...
ANNIE MCGEE

Every morning after all the absentee reports were in, he would leave walking and go to your house. I...
ANNIE MCGEE

Our mission has always been to help investors create win-win scenarios that benefit both the trouble...
ALEXIS MCGEE

Other Florida cities are showing similar price profiles, with the biggest inventory buildup on the s...
ALEXIS MCGEE

The median home price in Boston fell 4.5% over the last three months. In Washington D.C. prices were...
ALEXIS MCGEE

We teach our investor clients the fundamentals of successful foreclosure property investing, and sho...
ALEXIS MCGEE

As these markets cool down, we'll begin to see mortgage defaults increase in 2006.
ALEXIS MCGEE

We're seeing reduced price appreciation in the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska although population gro...
ALEXIS MCGEE

A great many risky loans were issued in California as home prices reached the stratosphere. Interest...
ALEXIS MCGEE

We're beginning to see price declines in most eastern markets in the fourth quarter of 2005.
ALEXIS MCGEE

We're seeing shrinking builder profit margins, and more and more incentives being offered to attract...
ALEXIS MCGEE

While the economy is strengthening overall, problems persist in manufacturing, and many of these sta...
ALEXIS MCGEE

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple huggin...
BARRY MCGEE

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art hi...
BARRY MCGEE

This time, I want the hugs, kisses, and love that comes with a farewell … even if it’s a tempora...
J.B. MCGEE

I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you ...
J.B. MCGEE

Turning my head so I can look into his eyes, I strum my fingers across his cheek. “You’re right....
J.B. MCGEE

Breakups, sales within pieces of the business, are off the table.
BRAD MCGEE

Most people can understand that these chances don't come around very often. To win one, two, three a...
BRAD MCGEE

We're now in a position where we've got some very strong businesses. We've got credibility to restor...
BRAD MCGEE

What we're hoping is that what we're providing investors now is a little bit of certainty.
BRAD MCGEE

If he left for good cause then he would be entitled to provisions of the contract.
BRAD MCGEE

At this point we are done. We're looking at today as a day when all the news is out on the table. We...
BRAD MCGEE

The medical professionals have given so much of their time and expertise to the clinic that we wante...
BOBBY MCGEE

I thanked him. When he came into our locker room and told us that, it was real classy on his part.
BOBBY MCGEE

I didn't see it then. But that group stayed together. We've got nine seniors.
BOBBY MCGEE

Coach Gurley said if we could keep this team together for four years, we'd be in the regional.
BOBBY MCGEE

He went through therapy. He got himself a personal trainer. He got his legs going. He made back for ...
BOBBY MCGEE

There are subdivisions popping up all over the place.
BOBBY MCGEE

Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how i...
BARRY MCGEE

If they default on the conditions, then there are provisions for council to negate the lease.
MICHAEL MCGEE

I can't even explain how I feel. All year, the only thing we've been missing is a touchdown.
TERRENCE MCGEE

He?s eating good, training good and things have gone without a hitch.
PAUL MCGEE

The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm.
TRAVIS MCGEE

He is a typical guy, liked hunting, fishing, sports, fast cars.
RICK MCGEE

We might just take the stroller and go over the canal.
NICOLE MCGEE

These pipes are mostly made of cast iron or steel, and over a period of years they start to corrode.
TOM MCGEE

He shook her hand and kissed her cheek. Kathy was pumped up after that. If he had done that with the...
PERRY MCGEE

It's in a younger generation, that's the killer about it. It keeps getting the young people... life ...
BETTY MCGEE

It's getting closer to that time now and you have that hanging over your head... you know 2 deaths i...
BETTY MCGEE

You would think things were getting better around here.
BETTY MCGEE

That's the really sad part about it, as small as this town is and things like this happen.
BETTY MCGEE

The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our ...
DAVID MCGEE

These are very well-hidden leaks. The soil is so porous that it just goes away.
TOM MCGEE

It's even more of a drive to get the third-place spot so we can prove a lot of people wrong. If we c...
ASHLEE MCGEE

It's going to probably be the same type of game. I wouldn't expect anything less. They are a good te...
ASHLEE MCGEE

Our chemistry this year is much better. We get along great on the court and off the court. We are ju...
ASHLEE MCGEE

I think everybody will adjust just fine. We've adjusted just fine wherever we've gone so far.
CHRIS MCGEE

We've just got to play through it. Looking back, watching film, watching where we break down and wha...
ANDRE MCGEE

I've been waiting for this for six weeks. Six weeks of camp, it's the longest camp in history. I thi...
CHRIS MCGEE

When I look at the photo, I think -- cute! HUF and I never thought the image was 'racist' and I am s...
BARRY MCGEE

You have to look at it as a piece of artwork.
BARRY MCGEE

Compelling art to me is a name carved into a tree. Sometimes a rock soaring through a plate of glass...
BARRY MCGEE

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever...
DAVID MCGEE

It's not Kathy filling Mark's shoes. It's a different kind of shoe.
JOHN MCGEE

We're looking forward to going out and retrieving this . . . regardless of whatever the conditions m...
MIKE MCGEE

He'll sit in his room and try to lift his legs. He picks his pant leg up.
RICK MCGEE

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.
DAVID MCGEE

Our research has always shown a correlation between foreclosures and a flattening home price appreci...
ALEXIS MCGEE

I have been told I have resigned; however, I'm telling you I have not resigned. Usually a guy knows ...
TOM MCGEE

I would probably give him a big hug,
TERRENCE MCGEE

It was really touching. Coach [Bruce MacGregor] did a really good job introducing me,
MIKE MCGEE

It just enables the counties not to absorb the mid-year budget hit that they had not anticipated.
TODD MCGEE

We also train our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that benefit both the homeowner in d...
ALEXIS MCGEE

In solitary at the towering fortress of desire, visioning for what the heart craved to restore, thou...
CATHERINE MCGEE

I'm scared. They haven't told me anything.
ALEXIS MCGEE

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?
DAVID MCGEE

He was pretty hard on me for a while, but it was all for the best. It helped me out a lot in life,
MIKE MCGEE

To have the other golfers come up and shake my hand after the banquet gave me a lot of confidence,
MIKE MCGEE

I was on cloud 10 [after that round],
MIKE MCGEE

He is probably one of the most competitive people I've ever met and that has been carried on to me,
MIKE MCGEE

We just came out here saying that this was a big game, not only for us but for whoever comes to our ...
MIKE MCGEE

It is with a great sense of appreciation that we designed The Colonial Center with our basketball fa...
MIKE MCGEE

Now we've got Steve Spurrier, who more than anything else loves a challenge. Opportunities to write ...
MIKE MCGEE

South Carolina, for whatever reasons, has always been a middling school,
MIKE MCGEE

Hope always springs eternal, ... You don't see many times when fans think they're worse off, no matt...
MIKE MCGEE

My kids stayed down there, camped down there with him and cooked down there with him. Nobody ever su...
DONNA MCGEE

I hope they will understand, through the presentations, the background of African Americans and thei...
DONNA MCGEE

If I can run a four-minute mile, I'd win a gold medal because no one has ever done it before.
CORY MCGEE

You still have the same feeling of competition before races.
CORY MCGEE

This was some of my best times for high school so far. I pushed it a little more in the mile today t...
CORY MCGEE

I was just reacting to what I saw, ... That's not how the play was supposed to go. But we needed som...
TERRENCE MCGEE

We went through the services at the college and what we have available.
CORLIS MCGEE

I think it's a part of who we are. It says we're a community that cares.
CORLIS MCGEE

It's a very exciting day.
CORLIS MCGEE

Last year we had 12 games in before our first conference game, this year we have five. But everybody...
DAN MCGEE

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.
DAVID MCGEE

A stem cell trial like this without full review should just never, ever happen. The University of Pi...
GLENN MCGEE

The level of scientific fraud is unprecedented because it involves so many co-conspirators and a sep...
GLENN MCGEE

This whole scandal is incredible given the scope of collusion that has to be involved.
GLENN MCGEE

This whole scandal is incredible given the scope of collusion that has to be involved. Even if it's ...
GLENN MCGEE

Ethics can get forgotten as other nations and private companies race to fill the void left by the pr...
GLENN MCGEE

Only a properly funded US stem cell research program will guarantee oversight and the protection of ...
GLENN MCGEE

This research is significant because it suggests that it will be possible to create mouse 'models' o...
GLENN MCGEE

Making a human embryonic stem cell, even from a nuclear transplant from an adult, in no way demonstr...
GLENN MCGEE

We're buying lists that include current customers to those who purchased six months ago, spread out ...
IAN MCGEE

Usually the 'free' offers get really good response. Not that it's really free, you can still make mo...
IAN MCGEE

All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.
ROBERT MCGEE

Maybe that's all that praying was, she thought, just wishing good outcomes on other people.
KATHARINE MCGEE

I believe in happiness. I'm just not sure love will actually get you there.
KATHARINE MCGEE

Love and trust aren't the same thing.
KATHARINE MCGEE

If you aren't sure, then you definitely aren't in love.
KATHARINE MCGEE

Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.
KATHARINE MCGEE

The tax base provides community services, whether it be fire protection or snow removal or police su...
LARRY MCGEE

The growth of Fort Riley is rather overwhelming, but if you keep a positive attitude and know you're...
LARRY MCGEE

Construction is going very well right now. We currently have about 240 million of open construction ...
LARRY MCGEE

Cathy has done a tremendous job over the past several years building our company's brand and a world...
LIAM MCGEE

Many private companies are planning activities that may increase their exposure to management liabil...
LISA MCGEE

They need to be taught a lesson. They'll learn that politics are shifting towards mass transit.
JOSEPH MCGEE

The competition for labor is critical. Connecticut has never looked beyond its own border for transp...
JOSEPH MCGEE

It was hard to keep the kids from talking. That was my job; I kept telling them it was a secret. But...
JOSEPH MCGEE

We have an outstanding group of kids this season. They are young, they are there every day for each ...
JOE MCGEE

I'm anxious for winter to be over.
JOE MCGEE

I'm looking forward to being able to come up here (to Auburn) and camp without getting rained on.
JOE MCGEE

We're young ? we have one senior. The kids are working hard; hopefully we can improve on last year's...
JOE MCGEE

It's fast and I'm just looking forward to it.
JOE MCGEE

It was a matter of trying to find what's lacking here and filling the void. We wanted to develop out...
JOAN MCGEE

My mother was a phenomenal speaker. She used to amaze me. There was not a note in front of her. It w...
JOAN MCGEE

My mother always read the papers and knew what was going on. She always kept her finger in the polit...
JOAN MCGEE

We didn't have as good a trip as Borrego. He moved at the three-eighths pole while we were pinned. H...
PAUL MCGEE

On March 1, we had to turn away over 100 students. We promised them we would arrange another testing...
MAX MCGEE

I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning, and I could barely stand up for the kickoff.
MAX MCGEE

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every tim...
MAX MCGEE

This is my first time attending this one. It's a good one, very educational.
ROBERT MCGEE

But I don't think it's as silly as those shows. A lot of what they talk about is really historically...
MATTHEW MCGEE

The cyst was the size of a tennis ball.
NANCY MCGEE

Let me guess: you were one of those kids who had a chair dedicated to you in detention in school." TONI MCGEE CAUSEY

The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is sp...
THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE

You'll never think of the old Cain and Abel battle the same way. Day's gripping, compelling, and kic...
TONI MCGEE CAUSEY

I'm going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster general stop reading dirty books and deli...
GALE W. MCGEE

Self-help and those stupid proverbs, they do nothing. Soul food? It’s like trying to cure starvati...
C. SEAN MCGEE

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS

How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES

They told us, â€˜You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' ... I wanted folks to respect me for my ability and not the happenstance of my birth. If you want respect, you have to give respect.

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They told us, â€˜You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' ... I wanted folks to respect me for my ability and not the happenstance of my birth. If you want respect, you have to give respect.

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