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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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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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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I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.
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It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.
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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.
