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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea. Why don't you… — Otis Blackwell
I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your… — Merle Haggard
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them,… — Freddie Mercury
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When… — James Madison
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or… — Thomas Paine
When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of… — Arnie Kantrowitz
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light… — George Eliot
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a… — Aristotle
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to… — Sam Bush
Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a… — Naomi Ragen
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. — Julian Beever
One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that… — Sheryl Crow
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. — Paul Simon
We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are… — Sri Chinmoy
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In… — Henny Youngman
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science… — Jacques Vallee
Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in… — Richard Hall

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