Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • William S. Burroughs There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bjork There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Carl Edward Sagan There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
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  • Louis Armstrong There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Alan Cohen There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • B. W. Powe There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
    Source: Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p.21
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • C. P. Snow There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
    Source: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Carolina Herrera There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Aldous Huxley There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • E. M. Forster There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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