Ronnie Hawkins Quotes

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Ronnie Hawkins

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When I was younger, I was mousey brown and started putting in highlights with each child. By the time I had my third baby, I was pretty much a blonde, and I stayed that way until I was in my late 50s.

Maye Musk

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The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Stephen Lewis

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When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

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Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

Jason Newsted

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And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Dolley Madison

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When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

David Tennant

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I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

Debbie Reynolds

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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Aristophanes

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I'd love it if every company could give raises to the average worker for doing good work.

Shawn Achor

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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Lynn Redgrave

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