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I got a woman way over town,
That's good to me, Oh yeah!
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On music:
It was a necessity for me—like food or water.
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Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.
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Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.
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You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
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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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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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My friends don't come around me
Because I've been so blind,
I can't even borrow a nickel
Now I've almost lost my mind.
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I got a woman, way over town
That's good to me.
She gives me money when I'm in need
Yeah she's a kind of friend indeed.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right
Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah
Tell me what'd I say right now
Tell me what'd I say
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An aspirin can cure a headache for an hour or two, but if the pain's really deep, nothing short of brain surgery is going to make it go away.
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Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.
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Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
September 23, 1930
Died:
June 10, 2004
(aged 73)
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