#were

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#basically #beatles #blues #inspired #rhythm

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. ↗

— Amy Tan

#book #books #go #hope #i

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#begin #eliminating #enforcing #fact #go

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#biggest #folk #making #really #records

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#anywhere #back #because #feet #fight

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural. ↗

— Picabo Street

#feels #fly #little #surprised #unnatural

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#his #honorary #made #president #secretary