Muddy Waters Quotes
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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I've never worried about the grand concepts.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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You have to know your identity. It's the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.
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A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
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I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
