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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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(Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.
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...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
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A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
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A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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