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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I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.
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People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.
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Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
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One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
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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.
