Archie Carr Quotes
I like the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,What must the Midnights - be!
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I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.
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I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.
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I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
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Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!
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I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.
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When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
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The devil is not as black as he is painted.
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The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.
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I like the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex.
