Booker T. Jones Quotes
Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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Han Suyin
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
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Karen Karbo
When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
Barack Obama
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Drood Commander, watching Xar in the mirror. ‘He said: “Everything Open,”’ said Encanzo. The smug smile was instantly wiped off the Drood Commander’s face
Cressida Cowell
Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
Booker T. Jones
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
