Billy Al Bengston Quotes
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
Constance Baker Motley
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.
Mary Lambert
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If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.
John Ridley
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.
Billy Al Bengston
