Big Joe Turner Quotes
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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My health is fine.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
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'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' (talking about the United States State Department) 2
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Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.
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Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
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I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.
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People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
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I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.
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The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
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Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.
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I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.
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A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
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Like a one eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store.
