Bill Haley Quotes
We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
Quotes to Explore
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
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You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
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We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
