Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bradley Joseph Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
    On composing Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Signi
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Charlie Parker Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Antonia Fraser My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Mae West My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • B. B. King My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Beth Brooke My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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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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  • Alain de Botton My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Alex Haley My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Boomer Esiason My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Robert Clive My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
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  • Buffalo Bill My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Oscar Wilde My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billy Idol My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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