Otis Blackwell Quotes
I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.
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The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, and entered its first postseason competition ever - the National Invitation Tournament - finishing third. That season's success seemed to vault St. Joe's into the national collegiate basketball scene, and it has been there since.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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'Well,' he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. 'Here we are again.'
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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
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It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.
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I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.
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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
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Before Hillary-bashing became its own thing, she was subjected to the standard-issue woman-bashing used on every powerful woman in Washington.
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My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.
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I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.
