J. Tillman Quotes
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
J. Tillman
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones
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I liked to play dress-up.
Vanessa Paradis
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
Larry King
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The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
Ted Cruz
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
Tom Stoppard
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Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
Rich Little
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Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
B. B. King
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
J. Tillman
