Sonny Bono Quotes

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

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• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

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• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

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• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

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• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

  

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• Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

  

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• Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

  

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• Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

  

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• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  

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• I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.

  

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• People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
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