Jimi Hendrix Quotes
I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.
Quotes to Explore
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
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Autumn was falling, but the pineSeem'd as it mock'd all change; no signOf season on its leaf was seen,The same dark gloom of changeless green.But like the gorgeous Persian bands'Mid the stern race of northern lands,The chesnut boughs were bright with allThat gilds and mocks the autumn's fall.
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Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.
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It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.
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I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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Craig Ferguson: Do you do therapy?Hugh Laurie: I see a gentleman once a week.Craig Ferguson: I love it, I'm a great convert.Hugh Laurie: Therapy?Craig Ferguson: No, just seeing a gentleman once a week.
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I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.
