Percy Sledge Quotes

Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

Percy Sledge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1941 - April 14, 2015

Topics

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Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Meghan Daum

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Whole Foods has a good health care plan.

John Mackey

GoodGood HealthHealthCarePlan

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

Matt Mullenweg

LoveServicePeopleGenuineProduct

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

Michael Connelly

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I think I discovered I wanted to be an actor when I got the first pay cheque.

Travis Fimmel

ThinkActorFirstPayGotI Think

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!

Tommy Lee

HeartBrokenDieTraditionInjuries

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

Mo Ibrahim

WarColdThinkAfricaCold WarThan

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

Dawn Olivieri

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Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

Chiang Kai-shek

LeadershipFatherFreedomGreatSun

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Chris Sacca

EyesWorldSomeoneEnoughYouBuild

Grief is exhausting.

Ciaran Hinds

GriefExhausting

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