Otis Rush Quotes

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

Otis Rush

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New YorkNewOutWorkingOhYork

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

Joe Henderson

TimeMeSayingExcusesMissedShirt

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

SilenceWarPartyRightDivine

I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines, and some have folded. What's fun about being an author is I reach a much bigger audience, and there is something special about launching a book you've penned.

Jeff Kinney

FunBookFeelReachYouBecome

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

TimeTwoDividedBooksHourClasses

I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.

Sophia Amoruso

BusinessRunEmployerBigCEO

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

Sonia Rykiel

PeopleFashionInterestedOther

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

Steve Mann

GoingAccountableActionsArgueElse

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

Moby

ChildrenParentsImagineFavorite

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Joyce Banda

WomenProudUsBecauseMajority

When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

Dick Dale

ManMovingVegasYouLookBad

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleRichYouBecomeNeverLike

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

Debbie Harry

MusicFocusCameraYouKindEmotion

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