#som

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#al #came #dinner #early #feeling

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#asking #down #everybody #fella #gave

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults. ↗

— John Eaton

#become #especially #even #faults #generally

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#back #decathlon #dissatisfied #draws #events

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. ↗

— Abba Eban

#anything #getting #someone #way #without

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#i #leather #meeting #pants #pretty

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#catholic #free #free will #gave #give

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#been #gimmicks #got #i #i think

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#chicago #could #first #getting #had

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. ↗

— Sherwood Eddy

#consequences #daring #evidence #faith #regardless