Otis Redding Quotes
Ole man trouble. Go find you someone else to pick on. I live my life now you see. Ole man trouble, Please stay away from me, now. Oh I look like I'm down in my luck. Please send faith to help pick me up. I've lived this way so many years. Ole man trouble, Please wash away all my fears.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Good design should be honest.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
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There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
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My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
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The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
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Ole man trouble. Go find you someone else to pick on. I live my life now you see. Ole man trouble, Please stay away from me, now. Oh I look like I'm down in my luck. Please send faith to help pick me up. I've lived this way so many years. Ole man trouble, Please wash away all my fears.
