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Ray Charles

"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."

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Akiroq Brost

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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Akiroq Brost

"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

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Akiroq Brost

"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

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Akiroq Brost

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

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"More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed."

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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."

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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."

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Ray Charles
"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

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Ray Charles
"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

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Ray Charles
"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."

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Ray Charles
"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."

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Ray Charles
"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."

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Ray Charles
"There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities."

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Ray Charles
"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.""

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Ray Charles
"Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine."

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Ray Charles
"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."

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Ray Charles
"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."

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