Bessie Smith Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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I was in Fort Lauderdale from about age 7 to 14. And that's where I learned the most about music. My favorite DJ was this guy named DJ Laz and the Miami bass guys. I was super into, like, Arthur Baker, that kind of stuff.
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If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
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I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said.
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I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.
