Nelson Quotes - Page 4

• I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.

  Bryan Hayes

  Song, Guy, Fans

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• History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

  William J. Clinton

  Champion, Dignity, Remember

  "Nelson Mandela: world leaders mourn inspirational figure" by Conal Urquhart, Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis, Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Space, Guy, Cash

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• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  Hari Kunzru

  Beautiful, Book, Grandmother

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• And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

  Kevin Pollak

  Team, Doe, Comedy

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

  Redman

  Violence, Violence Against Women, Cracked

  Song: Soopaman Luva 3, Album: Muddy Waters

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• Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

  Ian Astbury

  Men, Needs, Earth

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I'm specifically talking about Bill Nelson which merely said to [Barak] Obama stop what you're doing because it's against the law. He's out there saying that today we're gonna start separating families from their children and start sending people home, and it's not happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Home, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

  Henry Garza

  Father, Inspiration, Taught Us

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• In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

  Kim Gordon

  Dream, Book, Heart

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• Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that's a rare thing.

  Kumi Naidoo

  People, Leader, Gaps

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

  Brian McKnight

  Fire, Wind, Chicago

  "5 questions for Brian McKnight". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.houstonchronicle.com. August 16, 2016.

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• Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Dark, Years

  Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

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• Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

  Peter Gavin Hall

  Pigeons, Columns, Theater

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• The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.

  Sekou Odinga

  Hero, People, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Kissing, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

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• I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

  Lesley Ann Warren

  Girl, Country, New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.

  Tig Notaro

  Girl, Country, Mother

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• Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Special, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 05, 2013

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• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  B. B. King

  Song, Night, Always On My Mind

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.

  Robert H. Frank

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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• Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiration, Moral Compass

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2013

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• In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.

  Jean Alesi

  Winter, Race, Talking

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• Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

  Bill N. Lacy

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  New York, Plight, Definitions

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