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Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass…
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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as…
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What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as…
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We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born…
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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk…
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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something…
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I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding…
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I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises,…
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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually…
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Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as…
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Ctors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
— Anthony Head
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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as…
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are…
— Irvine Welsh
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
— Illeana Douglas
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People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru…
— Frederick Lenz
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I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell…
— Eric Schmidt
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I…
— Gabrielle Union
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The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of…
— David Bach
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Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.
— Steven Horsford
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The tongue weighs practically nothing, but yet so few people are actually strong enough to hold it.
— Boonaa Mohammed
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