Bessie Smith Quotes
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.
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There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
