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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

Jack Johnson

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Jack Johnson
Age: 68 †
Born: 1878
Born: March 31
Died: 1946
Died: June 10
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Galveston
Texas
John Johnson
John Arthur Johnson
Galveston Giant
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What about your mind, does it shine?
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart.
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I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
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Plato's cave is full of freaks.
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Home is wherever we are if there's love here too
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Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out.
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Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.
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If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.
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We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.
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you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart
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We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.
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Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.
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I can change the world with my own two hands
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The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.
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