Charles Godfrey Leland Quotes
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
