Marvin Gaye Quotes
Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on What's going on.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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I've had such an odd career.
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I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.
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Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The heavy hanging chains shall fall,The walls shall crumble at the word,And Freedom greet you with the lightAnd brothers give you back the sword.
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I love 'The Bachelor!' Yeah, all people love 'The Bachelor.'
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Once you produce a product and it goes out into the world, whether that's to a newswire or an agency or whatever, you don't have control over it.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.
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Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?
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I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.
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Picket lines and picket signs Don't punish me with brutality Talk to me, so you can see Oh, what's going on What's going on.
