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american-musician fill handed sack
Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far. Muddy Waters
american-musician blues hear people playing pure
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
american-musician people
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. Max Roach
american-musician work
The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other. Adrian Belew
american-musician band stood
We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right. Jeff Ament
american-musician band
We've always been a band that just did out own thing. We've never really set any goals, we just did what we wanted and set out to do. Scott Ian
american-musician came devil direction moving turned
We started the publicity, we started moving in the same direction with them, and then the devil came in and just turned that right around. Solomon Burke
american-musician
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion. Les Baxter
american-musician children
And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13. Merle Haggard
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
loved promise thrills tv whenever
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits. Gretchen Rubin
loved loves pulls rare team
This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other. David Justice
loved
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! Kathryn Lasky
loved political
When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. Robert Krulwich
loved meant
She said she loved us, and she meant it. Hunter Birckhead
loved
She said she just loved it here and wanted to stay.
loved passion work
She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music. Justin Timberlake
loved neighbors
She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there. Ronald Williams
loved
She never complained about it. She loved those kids.
minorities majority looks
Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority. Louis C. K.
minorities vegan enough
I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. Carol Leifer
minority sports
There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor. Bob McDonnell
minor
I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues. Cal Ripken, Jr.
minorities rewards fool
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. Adam Smith
minor problems
Occasionally we have problems, but usually it is a minor incident, nothing like this,
minorities plenty
There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them.
minorities done proud
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag. Cristina Saralegui
minority money racing sports
Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world. Tony McCoy
regime uses
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. bell hooks
regime
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. Mohamed ElBaradei
regime
The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. Elliott Abrams
regime worried
What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.
regimen soft team training
The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound. Brian Billick
regime school
The remnants of the regime are going to school on us, Donald Rumsfeld
regimes teach palestinian
I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. River Phoenix
regimes bases disarmament
I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament. Tony Blair
writers-and-writing writing-by-writers
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writers written
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writer
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable. Alan Moore
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writers
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
writers
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Claire Tomalin
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos