Booker T. Jones Quotes
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.Booker T. Jones Booker T. & the M.G.'s
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
Gabrielle Reece -
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk -
Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
Gary Herbert -
Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
Dakota Fanning -
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
Frances McDormand
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
Natasha Bedingfield -
Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller -
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
Ralph Abernathy -
I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
Kat Dennings -
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
S. Jay Olshansky -
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
Pat Metheny -
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
Bayard Taylor -
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Camille Paglia -
We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.
Marcus Garvey -
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
Anand Giridharadas -
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Marguerite Young
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
Keri Smith -
When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.
Don Zimmer -
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Jack Kevorkian -
If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.
Mohamed Al-Fayed -
Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
Oveta Culp Hobby -
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.
Booker T. Jones Booker T. & the M.G.'s