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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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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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
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My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance.
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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.
