Steve Cropper Quotes
Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
B. B. King
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
Quincy Jones
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
Patrick Marber
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
J. B. Priestley
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Edith Head
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
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I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
Malaika Arora Khan
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I've been really lucky.
Kat Dennings
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
Irrfan Khan
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
J. K. Simmons
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Jackie Robinson
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That will be the position I will be in as long as I'm on earth--that is, seeking the right path that God would have laid out for me.
Sarah Palin
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
Ian Mckellen
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Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.
Eliot Spitzer
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Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s