Robert Dwayne Womack (Bobby Womack) Quotes
When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.Robert Dwayne Womack
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn -
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
Foster Friess -
When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
Warren Beatty -
I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
La'Porsha Renae
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
Carly Schroeder -
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin -
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe -
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Larry Kramer -
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
Maajid Nawaz -
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
Walter Annenberg -
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle -
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
Fisher Stevens
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
P. J. O'Rourke -
These are songs that we were working on around the time of recording Futures, but that just didn't seem to fit on the record.
Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World -
The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of ealier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.
Eric Hobsbawm -
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
Flannery O'Connor -
The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
Marin Ireland -
When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.
Robert Dwayne Womack