Jimi Hendrix Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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Not everybody's gonna get your vision.
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To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
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When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
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I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.
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If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.
