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.
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
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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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Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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I'm the Barbie, keep alotta plastic. Little pink stars, put em on my jacket.
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Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.
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I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
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Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
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A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness
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I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.
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I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.
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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.
