- Finest Hour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is just like everybody else's dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I've never seen anyone work as hard as he does.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020