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Brownie McGhee

"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."

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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

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"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."

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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."

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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

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"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."

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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"

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"More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."

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"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."

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"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."
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"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."
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