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• Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!

  Joe Perry

  Song, Sex, Nuts

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Palaces, Thrones

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.48, Advaita Ashrama

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• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Littles, Fence, Fluttering

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.

  John Galt

  Mean, Humility, Fighting

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• Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'...
  Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'...
  Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'...
  Now take your lady to the world's fair (...)
  And do the 'rag time dance.'

  Scott Joplin

  Cake, World, Way

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• The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

  Robert Fulton

  Dream, Reality, Riches

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• It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

  Rosario Dawson

  Broken, Dating, Broke Up

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• The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Riches, Materialism

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

  Stanley Crouch

  Moving, Airplane, Light

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• I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Night, Names, Wish

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• I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street Rag" and those kinds of things. Then I got to hanging around with a bunch of guys starting to playing jazz. We'd go from one place to the other and take our instruments, just perform for free.

  Papa John Creach

  Guy, Playing Jazz, Stuff

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