Delta Quotes

• I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

  Charles Evers

  Baby, Bobby Kennedy, Cried

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• My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

  Mark Knopfler

  Ideas, Heaven, Delta Blues

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• I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

  Margaret Smith

  Running, Women, Memorable

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• That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

  Muddy Waters

  Mississippi Delta, Sound, Records

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• This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

  Jeri Ryan

  Movie, New Day, Actors

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

  Little Milton

  Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

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• I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

  Bo Gritz

  Military, Sea, Risk

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• Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Creating, People, Different

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• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Music, Forever, Jazz

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• The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, People

  "George R.R. Martin Teases Major Deaths In Next 'Game Of Thrones' Book" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. August 22, 2014.

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• Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

  Tanya Tucker

  Flower, Days Gone By, Rose

  Song: Delta Dawn, Album: Delta Dawn

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• The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight, Sea, Rivers

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• Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.

  Sylvia Browne

  Dream, People, Remember

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• The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

  Tim Cahill

  African American, Style, Cases

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• I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Mother, Spiritual

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• Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

  James S.A. Corey

  Optimism, Conservation

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Kings, Thinking

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.

  Bill Gates

  Lying, Ocean, Mean

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was on my solo tour that I got a chance to play with Martin Stephenson of the Daintees. He's now refashioned himself as almost a delta blues guitar player and he's got all the technique, all the persona and the charisma on stage. I think I do too, but I'm more of a first position strummer guy with a little bit of filigree work. I could listen to him for hours; I could listen to myself playing solo for about half an hour!

  Bill Mallonee

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

  Ian Gillan

  Journey, Important, Fans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo.

  Christopher Titus

  Car, Groups, Rolling

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• Delta: We never make the same mistake three times.

  David Letterman

  Mistake, Three, Three Times

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• I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

  Charley Pride

  Growing Up, Mississippi Delta, Giving

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• For a new payment product, you always have to ask, how much better is it than the current solution? So when we started Paypal, for eBay micro merchants, it was much better than getting the 7 to 10 days process of cashing a check in the mail. When you look at stores or physical worlds, places, a lot of these places are already set up to take cash or credit card. Apple Pay may be an incremental improvement, maybe a little bit better. But when you have something that's pretty good and you go to something that's perfect, sometimes it's very hard to drive adoption because the delta is not that big.

  Peter Thiel

  Perfect, Adoption, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Kids, Emotional, Energy

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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