When I first went to Kmart, I was so excited that I could bring my kind of taste to the masses. They didn't have 100 percent cotton sheets at mass market in 1987. We made those in yellow and pink and pale blue.
Martha Stewart
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Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.
Glen Campbell
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If I were going to prom again, I would wear a huge skirt and plain cotton tank. A big, poofy, flotation-device-sized skirt. I wish I had done that.
Leandra Medine
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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
Cab Calloway
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I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.
Jimmy Dean
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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
Sonny Terry
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Dorothy Malone
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I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.
Woody Harrelson
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It's an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.
Peter Uihlein
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I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.
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I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.
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Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
Harry Houdini
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.
Jo Brand
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My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
Robert B. Laughlin
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There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.
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As a kid, on the cotton fields, I had this tune in my head. I hummed it and sang it. It was the same melody as 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' I could never, ever forget it.
Percy Sledge
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I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.
Lesley Visser
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I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
Gerard Butler
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Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
Francis Parkman
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
Edmund Morgan
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