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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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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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'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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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.
