Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Anna Quindlen The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Ben Stiller The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Brit Hume The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Bob Woodward The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Antonia Fraser The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bernard Ebbers The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bee Wilson The comeback of true green olives was part of a Spanish food revival in the early 2000s. I credit Sam and Sam Clark of Moro Restaurant in London with making them cool again.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Socrates The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Thornton Wilder The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Dorothy Nevill The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
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  • Andrea Dworkin The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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