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Ike Turner

"Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person."

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"Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person."

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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."

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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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Amber Hurdle

"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either."
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"I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist."
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"I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot."
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"I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters."
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"In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang."
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"Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this."
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"I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life."
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"They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone."
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"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."
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"They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through."
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