Chuck Berry Quotes
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
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When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work.
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There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
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Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
