Saunders Teddell (Sonny Terry) Quotes
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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Power to the peaceful.
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Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.
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Fate is written in the face.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I am not interested in trying to convince and change the mind of a bigot.
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Racism consists in devaluing the humanity of certain people by dismissing it or playing it down even when not intentional at the same time as highlighting and playing up European philosophy, assuming it to be universal. It may be global, because it piggybacks on imperial expansion, but it certainly cannot be universal.
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I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
