Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • O. S. Hawkins What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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  • Lord George Byron What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bobby Hull What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bela Karolyi What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Brendan Myers What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • John Updike What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Billy Corgan What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Erich Fromm What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.
    Source: New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bell Hooks What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexander Pope What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, I the soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, I is virtue's prize.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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