Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
    Thomas Taylor
     
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  • Italo Calvino I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
    Source: News summaries (29 August 1955)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • R. A. Torrey I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
    R. A. Torrey
    American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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  • Anita Hill I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Francisco Franco I am responsible only to God and history.
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Barbra Streisand I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
    Source: The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1833)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Michelle Obama I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
    Michelle Obama
    lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (1964 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marcel Duchamp I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Martha Washington I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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  • Audre Lorde I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anita Roddick I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Graham Swift I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron I am stunned by how much time and effort I must spend marketing my book and interacting with my readers. With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • A. P. Herbert I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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