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When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. ↗

— Tom Petty

#any #blues #come #covering #find

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#almost #autonomous #been #difficult #enjoy

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#criticism #get #give #learn #read

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#lost #must #power #speak #tongue

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#clean #clinton #contempt #ever #guises

Sleep", he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "Whit what?" "My bare hands, obviously. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#romantic #tobias-and-tris #tobias-eaton #dreams

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. ↗

— Robert Plant

#stepping #stepping stone #stone

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

#larger #lesser #lie #say #stones

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? ↗

— David Plouffe

#american people #construction #continue #create #economy

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. ↗

— John Podesta

#clinton #considered #his #i #i believe