Edgar Winter Quotes

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.

Edgar Winter

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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Joan Didion

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I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

Jeremy Irvine

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I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Meg Rosoff

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One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

John Lithgow

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

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It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

Tony Kushner

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I'm very respectful of people's views. I know that they're deeply held, and I'd like to hope that people are respectful of my deeply held views.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

Ron Davies

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Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Mike Quigley

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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Mary Astell

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I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

Jaron Lanier

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I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.

Brian Krzanich

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