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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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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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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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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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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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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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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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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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From the time, I have been in politics, your love has kept me going. All Gujaratis have all right on me, but you have now shared that right with the people of India.' 'It's the first poll in my political life when I didn't have political sabha in Ahmedabad.
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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
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Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.
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They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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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.
