Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Billy Gibbons White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Nikki Giovanni White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Barbara Block White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
    Barbara Block
     
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  • Bobby Darin Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    Source: The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Washington Irving Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sophocles Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • George Eliot Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Martin Luther Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Caroline Knapp Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Anne Northup Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Source: Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Epictetus Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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