Chuck Berry Quotes
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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We do have a labor market that's basically on fire.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
