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Blind Lemon Johnson: Back water rising,...

Blind Lemon Johnson: Back water rising,...

Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors
I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no...

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George Carlin: We're having something...

George Carlin: We're having something...

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You...

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Katharine Hepburn: If you always...

Katharine Hepburn: If you always...

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Source: In The...

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Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: Macho does not...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: Macho does not...

Macho does not prove mucho.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Patricia Neal: Don't forget to...

Patricia Neal: Don't forget to...

Don't forget to duck!

Source: To John Wayne in Operation Pacific, 1951.
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Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

Jacqueline Bisset: I want to...

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality, and energy and interest. We all lose...

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Robert Bresson: An old thing...

Robert Bresson: An old thing...

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what surrounds it.

Source: Notes on...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: The voice I...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: The voice I...

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . . . and I'd never...

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Karen Carpenter: I had no...

Karen Carpenter: I had no...

I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined. . . but the band director...

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Billie Holiday: I never had...

Billie Holiday: I never had...

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years...

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Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

Robert E Sherwood: The trouble with...

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

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Peter Shaffer: Passion, you see,...

Peter Shaffer: Passion, you see,...

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Source:...

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Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer....

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: I've learned of...

I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find...

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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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Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Source: Dreamthorp,...

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Norman Angell: Everywhere I...

Norman Angell: Everywhere I...

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own...

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John Osborne: I never deliberately...

John Osborne: I never deliberately...

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something...

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Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

Francis Thompson: The innocent moon,...

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,
Moves all the labouring surges of the...

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