Sam Phillips Quotes
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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We women adore failures. They lean on us.
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One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
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If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
