Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Quotes
I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
Carli Lloyd
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
Brown Campbell
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Samuel Beckett
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
Vanilla Ice
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
Fran Kranz
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
Aaron Paul
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
Tammy Bruce
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
Paddy Considine
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Lady Gaga
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
Zachary Taylor
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
Natasha Poly
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
Umberto Eco
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
Adam Carolla
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
Patrick Lencioni
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You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.
Toni Braxton
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
Karan Mahajan
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In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
Andrew Bogut
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I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
Ellas McDaniel