Percy Sledge Quotes
'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.
Quotes to Explore
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
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My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.
