Chuck Berry Quotes
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
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When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.
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Maybellene, why can't you be true?
