Gypsy Quotes - Page 5

• My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a history about race in my family that has very much to do with the other things that you name about poverty, about class, about access - or lack of it.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Father, Race, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

  Felix Marti-Ibanez

  Land, Cities, Water

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• I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.

  Garry Winogrand

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

  Albert Einstein

  Age, Tendencies, Inherent

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

  Noomi Rapace

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Stories, West, Sides

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• Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

  Gary Gulman

  Guitar, Talent, Remarkable

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• A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

  Dolly Parton

  Kind, All Kinds, Great Things

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• It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's become a phobia, so I have to watch it. It affects your day a lot. Before I go on stage, there are certain things I do that are semi-sort of Gypsy superstitious things, but I'm coping with them. It hasn't affected the music, thank God. If you got really bad, you'd say "I'll pick that note instead of that one or sing this song before that.

  Rory Gallagher

  Song, Grandmother, Years

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• There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice.

  Ric Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Play

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• The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.

  Maureen McGovern

  Years, Circles, Careers

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• Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

  Kam Williams

  Trying, Ambitious, Passionate

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• The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

  Franz Liszt

  Numbers, Musician, Firsts

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• Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Children, Ems, May

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.177

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

  Neon Hitch

  Ginger, Outcast, Great Times

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• We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  People, Jew, Knows

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.322, Hachette UK

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• I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Tarot, Cards

  Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• The Gypsy Heart tour is a dream come true. Not only because of all the beautiful cities I will get to visit, but all of the beautiful people I will get to meet. Gypsy Heart is not just a tour for me, but a mission to spread love.

  Miley Cyrus

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

  FaceBook post by Miley Cyrus from Mar 29, 2011

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• For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

  Chita Rivera

  Fun, Who I Am, Years

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• Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Literature, Littles, Should

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• This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

  Theodore von Karman

  Children, Science, Law

  Theodore Von Kármán (1965). “Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam”

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• I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

  James Badge Dale

  Crazy, People, Dancer

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

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• Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

  Tom Petty

  Religious, Home, Mean

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• I'm a wandering gypsy.

  Lady Gaga

  Wander

  "Lady Gaga's Parents Always Knew She Had A Screw Loose" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2012.

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