Sam Cooke Quotes
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
