Went Quotes
7508 Went quotes by 4780 unique authors
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went…
— Willie Nelson
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could…
— Steve Earle
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Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
— James A. Baldwin
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It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to…
— Naomi Ragen
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Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the…
— Tom Rush
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There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
— John L. Phillips
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The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look,…
— Ray Charles
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I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth…
— Hans Zimmer
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All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out…
— Hanif Kureishi
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When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the…
— Barack Obama
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I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th…
— Buck Owens
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One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I…
— Bobby Sherman
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
— Samantha Barks
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A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their…
— Gordon Cooper
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I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything…
— Ronald Reagan
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My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.
— Henny Youngman
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Thailand's been good. Mike Swick and his camp there have been awesome. I initially went there on the 12th week and was going to finish…
— Soa Palelei
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I…
— Mike Tyson
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Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering…
— Unknown Author
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why…
— A J Liebling
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I was inspired by movies like 'Jawbreaker'and 'Carrie' for the 'Break the Rules' video. I never went to prom when I was at school so…
— Charli XCX
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So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it,…
— Lightnin' Hopkins
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In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the…
— Unknown Author
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