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I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players… — Alex Chilton
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade… — Ned Sublette
It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate… — Leonard Boswell
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my… — Cesar Pelli
The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope. — Mark Jason Dominus
Yes I have a belt. I wear big pants because my ass is huge. So I can't go to a store by off the rack… — John Cena
I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate. — Dianne Feinstein
The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation,… — Lynn Westmoreland
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every… — Laura Chinchilla
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs. — Gaetano Pesce
The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara. — Fran Lebowitz
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden.… — Greg Peterson
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever… — William Ernest Henley
Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time,… — George Will
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States. — John Breaux
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and… — Gustav Mahler

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