Merle Travis Quotes
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Merle Travis
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
Ice Cube
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
Orlando Bloom
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
Zosia Mamet
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
Parker Posey
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
Nathan Sawaya
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
Pablo Sandoval
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
Sally Kirkland
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Bayard Taylor
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
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The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.
Elisabeth Elliot
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It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.
Torrie Wilson
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Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Merle Travis
