Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • W. H. Auden My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Lennon My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Robbins My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Barry Sanders My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
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  • Anna Sewell My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bea Arthur My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Brendan Myers My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Assata Shakur My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.
    Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 204
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.
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  • Edward Gibbon My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Barry Commoner My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Lord Melbourne My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Abel Ferrara My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Robert E. Lee My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Al Jarreau My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Jordan My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
    Source: Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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