Evel Knievel Quotes
If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
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'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.
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I cook what I like.
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It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.
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Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness. In the garden the chrysanthemums bloom, beautiful, peaceful, as they did a year ago, but the autumn leaves, falling one by one, only make me sad.
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We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
