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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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 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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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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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
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'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
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I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
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The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
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I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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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.
