Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Samuel Johnson It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Ben Okri It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bob Barr It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Agnes E. Meyer It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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  • Franz Kafka It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Antonin Artaud It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Audre Lorde It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bob Corker It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bo Bennett It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
    Original: Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Hannah More It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Barry Gibb It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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