Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) Quotes
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,England is mine and it owes me a living
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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Before you speak, listen.
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Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.
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I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.
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I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
