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Desmond Dekker Quotes

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: jamaican
Birth: July 16, 1941 - May 25, 2006

Topics

Work School Learn Tailor Started

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

Song Silly Try Always Producer Us

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Leadership Service Men Violence May

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Believe Financial Retirement Physical

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

Law Bad Whenever

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

Melvin Van Peebles

Day Hell Better I Can Said Sitting

I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.

Matthew Macfadyen

Hate Me Think Play Years Would

I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.

John Rhys-Davies

Myself Me Fly Worry Too Much Ground

It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.

Moment World Week Write Difficult

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.

Robbie Coltrane

Free Think Year Three Movies Room

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

Family Goal Prove Dummy

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

Mom Proud Look Like

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

Joshua Micah Marshall

Tax Flat Case Flat Tax

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