Eric Clapton Quotes
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
G. Gordon Liddy
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
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I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
Kate Moss
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
James A. Garfield
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
Brian Wilson
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
Vartan Gregorian
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
Veronica Lake
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What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
William Law
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Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.
Ben Lerner
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I eat before I feel hungry. I know that when you order food or shop on an empty stomach, you always tend to over-eat, over-order, or over-shop. So I always eat slightly before I'm famished.
R. Madhavan