Robert W. Service Quotes
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
Taylor Momsen
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
Candace Bushnell
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
Bebe Rexha
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
Hannah Simone
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
Ted Deutch
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
RaeLynn
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
Quentin Tarantino
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson
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I think sometimes you are born with a song.
Nana Mouskouri
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
Wen Ho Lee
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Say the opposite, say the opposite, say the same thing, say the same thing. (song/refrain on 'The Show').
Ze Frank
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What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of still, To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like, To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like.
Wallace Stevens
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If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.
Alan Watts
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Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.
Alan Greenspan
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As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.
Jim Cummings
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If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.
Christina Romer
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Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
Margaret Geller
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I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
John Joseph Lydon
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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. van Vogt
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Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
Betty Shabazz
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'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
A. J. Muste
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Robert W. Service
