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The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters…
— Florence Nightingale
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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority…
— John C. Maxwell
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Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
— John C. Maxwell
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I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line…
— Mose Allison
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something,…
— Paul Simon
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If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every…
— Dave Barry
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But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a…
— Brandi Carlile
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
— Victor Borge
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My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two…
— Don Helms
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;…
— John Fowles
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These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs…
— Ani DiFranco
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too…
— Dolly Parton
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There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb,…
— Fred Eaglesmith
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If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
— Ray Davies
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The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and…
— Nachman of Breslov
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There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and…
— Maurice Samuel
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There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
— Townes Van Zandt
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All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three…
— Townes Van Zandt
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There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind…
— Merle Haggard
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I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse…
— Unknown Author
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You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into…
— David Bowie
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CSETI (The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has in the past 18 months succeeded in intentionally establishing contact with extraterrestrial spacecraft, on two…
— Steven M. Greer
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There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere…
— Robert Wyland
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You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used…
— Richard Branson
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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the…
— Mark Twain
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