Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Camille Paglia Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Brad Henry Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Felix Frankfurter Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Old England liberty - to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • William Hazlitt Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • André Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Francis Bacon Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Herbert Hoover Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Steve Jobs Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Germaine Greer Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Caity Lotz On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Brea Grant On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Ang Lee On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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