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Ruth Brown

"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."

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"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."

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"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."

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"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

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"They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned."

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"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

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"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
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"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
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"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues."
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"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
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"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."
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"When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada."
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"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
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"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."
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