Chubby Checker Quotes
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If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.
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I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
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Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
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The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
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Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
