Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Milan Kundera The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Paul De Man The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Anna Lindh The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Baba Kalyani The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bar Refaeli The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Henderson The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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