Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
Quotes to Explore
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
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When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
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Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
