Paul Rodgers Quotes

I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.

Paul Rodgers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 17, 1949

Topics

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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Jesse Jackson

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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Maya Lin

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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Michael Crichton

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You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

Tony La Russa

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We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

River Phoenix

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Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

Roxane Gay

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Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

Michael Specter

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In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

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We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.

Douglas Leone

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I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

Constance Wu

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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Arthur Erickson

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