Jackie DeShannon Quotes
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.Jackie DeShannon
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
Jack Klugman -
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
Victoria Pratt -
Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
Kaley Cuoco -
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
Manny Pacquiao -
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
Gary McCord -
The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
Nancy A. Collins -
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Natan Sharansky -
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
Omar Bongo -
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Nana Mouskouri
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
Edie Campbell -
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Life doesn't stop with football.
Barry Sanders -
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
Fan Bingbing -
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
Abigail Washburn
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
R. Kelly -
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
Bat for Lashes -
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames -
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
Jackie DeShannon