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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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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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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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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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
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Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
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When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.
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The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.
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Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
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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.
