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Billy Wilder: You have Van...

Billy Wilder: You have Van...

You have Van Gogh's ear for music.

Source: Said to Cliff Osmond. Attrib.
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Joan Baez: Nonviolence is a...

Joan Baez: Nonviolence is a...

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Source: Daybreak
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Mahalia Jackson: Someday the sun...

Mahalia Jackson: Someday the sun...

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Source: In...

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Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

Ella Fitzgerald: I stole everything...

I stole everything that I heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Source: In...

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Alice Childress: I think women...

Alice Childress: I think women...

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep...

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Clifton Fadiman: There are two...

Clifton Fadiman: There are two...

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you...

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Joan Didion: The fancy that...

Joan Didion: The fancy that...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children,...

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Billie Holiday: I'm always making...

Billie Holiday: I'm always making...

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Source: In...

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Rod Stewart: I'm a rock...

Rod Stewart: I'm a rock...

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Billie Holiday: If I don't...

Billie Holiday: If I don't...

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Marian Anderson: A singer starts...

Marian Anderson: A singer starts...

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of...

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Pearl Bailey: A man without...

Pearl Bailey: A man without...

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his...

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Walt Whitman: Let that which...

Walt Whitman: Let that which...

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean...

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Pindar: Natural ability is...

Pindar: Natural ability is...

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of...

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Denise Levertov: Images <br>split the...

Denise Levertov: Images
split the...

Images
split the truth
in fractions.


Source: A Sequence, in The Jacob's...

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Humphrey Bogart: Louis, I think...

Humphrey Bogart: Louis, I think...

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Source: Casablanca,...

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Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Source: Narcissa,...

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Robert Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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Emily Dickinson: To make a...

Emily Dickinson: To make a...

To make a prairie
It takes clover and one bee
One clover, and a bee, and revery.
The revery alone will...

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Robert Burns: Some rhyme a...

Robert Burns: Some rhyme a...

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the country...

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