Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Amy Tan I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Simone Weil I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • William Shakespeare I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John McCain I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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  • Adam Savage I wouldn't say Jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Muriel Spark I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Aaron Carter I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Joan Didion I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
    Source: Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Philip Roth I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Vilanch I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • A. A. Milne I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    Source: War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Kruger I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Barney Ross I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Barry Sheene I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
    Barry Sheene
    British professional motorcycle racer (1950 - 2003)
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