"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."

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Source : FaceBook post by Aretha Franklin from Aug 30, 2011

Aretha Franklin

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“A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,â€ the Mountain declared. â€œCut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.”
“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.”

Source : Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House
“Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.”
“A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage Î¦X174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.”
“Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.”
“Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.”
“Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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