#were

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #by the time #domestic #done #faded

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#band #both #don henley #going #happy

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. ↗

— David Friedman

#advisor #got #i #kill #letter

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#both #countryside #ever #had #home

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#heart #i #independents #jesus #judeo-christian

We were a country band with a social conscience. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#conscience #country #social #were

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.' ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#girl #now #say #were #words

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#as far as #athletes #better #black #concerned

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#attracted #bass #became #being #bought