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Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2727.

  • Benny Goodman That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Lincoln That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bernhard Langer That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Abel Ferrara That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Ace Frehley That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Butch Trucks The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Mary McCarthy The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Alain de Botton The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Russell Lynes The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Jean Kerr The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Buzz Osborne The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Bill Gates The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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