Sam Cooke Quotes
It's summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your mama's good -looking. Hush, little baby don't you cry.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.
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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.
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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
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Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.
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All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
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The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
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It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.
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It's summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. Your daddy's rich and your mama's good -looking. Hush, little baby don't you cry.
