Isaac Hayes Quotes

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

Isaac Hayes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008

Topics

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I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.

Joe Frazier

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All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Max Weber

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Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

Steven Pinker

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Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

Troy Carter

MusicYearFirstBecauseConsumer

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

Tom Sturridge

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I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.

Juergen Teller

StrengthMeBelieveThinkPortrait

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

Christopher Hitchens

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We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.

Ariel Sharon

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Thorstein Veblen

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Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Marilyn vos Savant

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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Muhammad Iqbal

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