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“I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.”
Source : "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 5, 2016.
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“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
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“In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.”
Source : Henry Lawson (1967). “Collected Verse: 1885-1900”
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“Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume”
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“We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.”
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“I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.”
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“Ask a new question and you will learn new things.”
Source : George Greenstein (1988). “The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos”
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“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”
Source : Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol, Benjamin Henry Ascher (1859). “A Choice of Pearls: Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections”, p.145