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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#ahead #because #being #bottom #death

A cat is never vulgar. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#never #vulgar

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#collaborates #copy #draw #far #imagination

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#attacked #could #israel #nuclear #retaliate

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#give #idea #means #must #painting

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#absolutely nothing #charming #conversation #delightful #nothing

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#andrew #attended #born #boy #i

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#big #day #doing #feel #full

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #learn #needed #school #started

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#four #i #lead #lead singer #like