Brownie McGhee Quotes
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I started drama in high school.
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It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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I am married.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
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Isaacs has a cheap Bic pen in his hand. He runs his fingers down the shaft, inverts it, runs his fingers down the shaft, over and over, in a motion that is mechanical rather than impatient.
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Give me a title and we'll start from there.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
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I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
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The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
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Taxpayers should not be on the hook for subsidizing former presidents' lives to the tune of millions of dollars.
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Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
