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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just…
— Stevie Nicks
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All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and…
— Cat Stevens
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Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a…
— Harry S. Truman
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Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
— Simone Weil
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I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back…
— Rashida Jones
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But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing…
— Harry S. Truman
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
— Douglas Coupland
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Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
— Mel Brooks
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who…
— Confucius
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally…
— Richard Asher
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Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
— Florence Nightingale
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You fall off the horse and you get back on.
— Bethany Hamilton
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I say to my students that I can't teach them how to write a good song, but I can teach you how to write a…
— Andy Wilkinson
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If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it…
— Mose Allison
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I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's…
— Guy Clark
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I could send myself right back to the day that I wrote "Angel Of The Morning," how it felt. I had a buzz through me…
— Chip Taylor
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Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt…
— Conor Oberst
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