Causes Quotes
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When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any."
Richard Pryor
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I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
Damian Kulash OK Go
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But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!
Louis Sachar
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I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
Seneca the Younger
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
Isaac Newton
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You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
LL Cool J
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Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))
Jason Mraz
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If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
Martin Luther
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
Ken Robinson
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Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!
Dave Niehaus
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
e. e. cummings
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Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."
Sarah Dessen
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Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.
Schoolboy Q
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Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes
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"S" on my chest cause I'm ready to save him Ready to get buck on anybody that plays him
Nicki Minaj
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Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.
George Washington