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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. Muddy Waters
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
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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
benefits tasks easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger. Charles Caleb Colton
benefits might alternatives
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage. Alan Greenspan
benefits cash size
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power. Alan Greenspan
benefit ensure help homes months organized rebuild refugee return secure summer until
We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way. Jamie Shea
benefit economic general goes good net positive provide revenue stay
We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state. James Hood
benefit economic power preserving purchasing relatively spend spending stream subject
We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now. Andrew Golden
benefit biggest public step
We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time. Pat Keliher
benefit persistent stocks
I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure. Louis Navellier
benefit list listed needed reason soon
The only reason we wouldn't be able to make it (to the benefit concert) is if Pete got listed and we needed to leave. As soon as they list him then we need to get him down immediately. Kevin Logan
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. Charles Dickens
couple men hands
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat. Charles Dickens
couple hands want
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better. Charles Stross
couple may terrible
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. Charles Stross
couple years my-boyfriend
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. Alanis Morissette
couple majority adaptation
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Alan Moore
couple guitar burritos
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos. Alan Arkin
couple moving done
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. Alan Ball
couple believe next
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Al Michaels
george left lives looked memories moments precious remain spent surrounded
We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever. Ravi Shankar
george overlook turn
When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them. Corey Brewer
george recognize washington
We?re going to make it so that if George Washington or Mrs. Folsom were to reappear, they would recognize the place. Tom Johnson
george hone michigan percent prepared second state time win
We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now. Tom Izzo
george heck knew mason tough trying
We knew we were going to have to play a heck of a game. George Mason is a really tough team, and then trying to play them in this building. We just didn't have it tonight. Mark Turgeon
george great jonathan lenny pryor richard tradition
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents. Robert Klein
george given invest sure time uncle
Make sure you haven't told Uncle George he can invest at any given time at any given amount. David Dwyer
george
I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller. Terry Hayes
george
What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem? Ed Smith
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Charles Dickens
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. Charles Dickens
hard-work easy-work problem
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
hard-work jealous thinking
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Alain Prost
hard-work acting joyful
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. Al Pacino
hard-work actors today
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it. Akshay Kumar
hard-work mind lasts
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough
hard-work mean pursuit-of-happiness
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness. David McCullough
hard-work thinking focus
Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work. David Krumholtz
nights people possibly tap unaware view
There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it. Heather Watts
nights played random signed talk turned white
I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun. Ed Sheeran
nights
Some nights you just get beat. You do the right thing most of the time, but you just get beat. I think this is one of those nights. Nate McMillan
nights
Some nights you feel like you can't lose. Luckily, it was one of those nights. Jarret Stoll
nights played
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing. Yogi Berra
nights recall reminds term weekends
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago. Rachel Sklar
nights sitting whom
I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support? David Dinkins
nights stay surprised works
I wouldn't say it surprised me, but you have to stay ready. On nights like this when you get the opportunity, you want to be ready. Sometimes it works for you and sometimes it doesn't. Adam Kennedy
nights past sleeping spent
He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods. Robert Vega
obviously question record
We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week. Howard Dean
obviously shifting
We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections. Billy Coleman
obviously people social thinking twitter
Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show. Eliza Taylor
obviously
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease. Eula Biss
obviously
The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy. Keyshawn Johnson
obviously
We won, so obviously I feel very good. Bruce Chen
obviously sauce sundays
Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing. Joey Fatone
obviously worked
Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America. Jim Ratcliffe
obviously
She is obviously distraught and is at an undisclosed location. Ron Walker
song writing pay
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid. Charles Caleb Colton
song world this-life
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! Charles Dickens
song blue rivers
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. Charles Dickens
song remember lows
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. Charles Stuart Calverley
song pain men
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Charles Spurgeon
song names heaven
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord. Charles Spurgeon
song nature believe
The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience. Charles Spurgeon
song grief mars
Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.' Charles Spurgeon
song heart night
He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart. Charles Spurgeon