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Marty Robbins: I didn't choose...

Marty Robbins: I didn't choose...

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

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Ray Charles: I was born...

Ray Charles: I was born...

I was born with music inside me . . . Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my liver, my kidneys, my heart. Like my...

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Little Richard: When you sit...

Little Richard: When you sit...

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played...

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John Lennon: If being an...

John Lennon: If being an...

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me...

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Fanny Brice: Being a funny...

Fanny Brice: Being a funny...

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't...

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Lionel Hampton: [Jazz] went from...

Lionel Hampton: [Jazz] went from...

[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You...

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David Letterman: New York now...

David Letterman: New York now...

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden...

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Jack Paar: Doing the show...

Jack Paar: Doing the show...

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in...

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Dick Cavett: To label me...

Dick Cavett: To label me...

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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Abigail Adams: . . ....

Abigail Adams: . . ....

. . . a habit the pleasure of which increases with practice, but becomes more urksome with...

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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to...

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Ramsey Clark: Turbulence is life...

Ramsey Clark: Turbulence is life...

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

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Ramsey Clark: A great many...

Ramsey Clark: A great many...

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about...

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Frederick the Great: A crown is...

Frederick the Great: A crown is...

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Source: Remark
-- Frederick the...

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James Callaghan: Some people, however...

James Callaghan: Some people, however...

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm...

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Clement Attlee: I think the...

Clement Attlee: I think the...

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles...

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Barbara Jordan: There is no...

Barbara Jordan: There is no...

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and...

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Barbara Jordan: I live a...

Barbara Jordan: I live a...

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing...

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Barbara Jordan: What the people...

Barbara Jordan: What the people...

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

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