Robert Dwayne Womack (Bobby Womack) Quotes
I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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I'm a clean liver; I'm no thief. Kids go through phases of nicking stuff. I've nicked stuff - most people have - but I haven't nicked anything of significance.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
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I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.
