Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Bill Goldberg They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Barry Switzer They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
    Barry Switzer
     
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  • Carl Hiaasen They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joyce Grenfell They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
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  • Tacitus They make a wilderness and call it peace.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • C. S. Forester They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Source: Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Confucius They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bernard Pivot They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor They sang of love and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang Annie Laurie.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bayard Taylor They sang of love, and not of fame;
    Forgot was Britain's glory;
    Each heart recalled a different name,
    But all sang Annie Lawrie.
    Source: The Song of the Camp
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Allan K. Chalmers They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
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  • William Shakespeare They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • A. E. Housman They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
    Its narrow measure spans
    Rue for eternity, and sorrow
    Not mine, but man's.

    This is for all ill-treated fellows
    Unborn and unbegot,
    For them to read when they're in trouble
    And I am not.
    Source: More Poems (1936)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Jackson They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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