Dickey Betts Quotes
Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
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As a woman, I have no country
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get like a good rhythm you can nod your head. You just feel good. But then when you listen to the lyrics it was quite sad.
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I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!
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Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
