Big Joe Turner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Like a one eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store.
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Now flip, flop, and fly, I don't care if I die.
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Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.
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I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
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I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained.
-- Big Joe Turner
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Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
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I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.
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I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
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