Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Alfred P. Sloan I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Richard Armour I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
    Richard Armour
    American poet and author (1906 - 1989)
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  • Buzz Osborne I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Beeban Kidron I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bell Hooks I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Vilanch I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Anne Lamott I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
    Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2012) 887
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • A. E. Housman I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Aeschylus I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bea Arthur I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Rock IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Emily Post Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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