Martin Luther Quotes
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
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How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
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Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
