In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
AIMEE MULLINSHe described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
JIMI HENDRIX -
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
BRIAN ENO -
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
I am addicted to prescription pain medication.
RUSH LIMBAUGH -
A moment with Jesus changed everything.
JUDAH SMITH -
Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it’s comforting when you’re near someone and you recognize their smell.
BLAKE LIVELY -
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
KHALIL GIBRAN -
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
ADYASHANTI -
I am who I am today because of my mother.
KEVIN HART -
A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
But I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL -
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
CLINT EASTWOOD -
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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