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.
Raekwon -
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
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.
Maisie Williams -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus -
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
D'Angelo -
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
Kate Smith -
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Dana Spiotta -
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.
Queen Latifah
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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.
Beanie Sigel -
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler -
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
Hank Stram -
I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
Kate Bush -
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
Ted Williams
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
Walt Whitman -
Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
Anna Akhmatova -
That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
Dennis Banks -
Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus Himself.
F. F. Bruce Quotes -
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
Charles Godfrey Leland