Nellie McKay Quotes

In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.

Nellie McKay

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Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

Michael Dirda

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Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

John Prescott

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Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

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The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

Tommy Bond

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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Roland Allen

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The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

Michael Steele

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My mother left my father in their late 60s.

Dito Montiel

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History informs where we are and how we got here.

Dee Rees

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Bitterness kills the soul.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Susanna Moodie

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Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

Shannon Sharpe

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To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Tim Crouch

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