Big Joe Turner Quotes
I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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I received free health care.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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People want you to fail.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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I think that once you’ve seen the ways in which lots of these animals are killed and how brutal and grotesque and unnecessary it is, I think that people would automatically choose not to wear fur.
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'There is a steep and lofty wall,Where my warders trembling stand,He who at speed shall ride round its height,For him shall be my hand.'
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.
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I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.
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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.
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I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.
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Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
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I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
