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“Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.”

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Author:Alan Freed

“I remember when I was first starting out in the late 50's, and everybody at that time said rock 'n roll was gonna die. I was 15 years old when I started, and I certainly didn't believe that was true. I thought anything that feels this good and makes me want to tap my foot like this can't be a passing fad like everybody says. Of course, they were wrong, and here we are in the 90's and it's alive and well, and getting programmed all over the country, and really all over the world. So it's been a great journey.”

World Want Feels Years Firsts Believe Wells Said Country Remember Dies Courses Alive Journey Feet Rocks Late Starting Passing Passings Rock N Roll Remember When Fads Starting Out Great Journeys

Author:Bobby Vee

“There are still so many unanswered questions about what causes autism and other developmental disorders on the spectrum. So it is vital that we continue to research and educate ourselves in the hopes that we may begin to understand the challenges that these children and their families continue to face with each passing day.”

May Children Stills Faces Causes Challenges Research Passing Passings Disorder Educate Autism Spectrum Unanswered Questions Unanswered Developmental

Author:Manny Alvarez

“I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."”

People Thinking Men Figures Color Sitting Definitions Invisible Passing Passings Nerd Being Me Time Passing Time Passes Nerdy

Author:Junot Diaz

“Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.”

Years Age Past Used Speak Dark Europe Passing Passings Used To Be Radical Latin Dark Ages Counterproductive Past Future

Author:Bruce Sterling

“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.”

People Ifs Knows Real Body Space Fiction Knowing Rich Missing Creating Clothes Stranger Passing Passings Dimensions Not Knowing Enticing

Author:Miranda July

“I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word.”

Giving I Can Problem Deals Talking Laughing Comedy Fans Mom Battle Weight My Mom Honestly Passing Passings Release Therapy Chests Passing Away

Author:Kevin Hart

“My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.”

Looks Enough Moments Strong Situation Happened Passing Passings Funeral Mum Looking Back Strong Enough Passing Away Funny Moments

Author:Kevin Hart

“The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.”

Knows Pain Lying Alive Dying Dog Car Broken Cold Winter Woods Passing Snow Passings Bitter Gutters No Pain Asphalt Elk Bitter Cold

Author:George Greenstein

“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.”

Doe Dog Conscience Passing Passings

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.”

Growth Birth Creatures Passing Passings Maturity Cycles Decay Again And Again Living Creatures Fertility

Author:Wendell Berry

“Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.”

Tests Passing Passings Krishna

Author:Radhanath Swami

“If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.”

Ifs Art Real Today Minutes Passing Passings Sweetness Here And Now Art Of Living

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.”

Ifs Knows World Way Persons Values Dark Virtue Crazy Integrity Tasks Chaos Passing Passings Breathing Decent Maps You Choose Passing On Crazy Times

Author:Michael Ventura

“Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.”

Needs Humans Heart Community Healing Failing Tradition Wounds Passing Passings Storytelling Being Human Strengthening Basic Needs Confessing

Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

“Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.”

Strong Judgment Breaths Tired Passing Passings Reserves Weary Passing Judgment

Book:Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible

Source: Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible

“When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.”

Kids House Known Enemy Doors Car Fronts Passing Passings Farmers Front Doors Rigged Nebraska Shotguns Intruders

Author:Dick Cavett

“You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.”

May Action Differences Imagine Streets Type Impact Stranger Passing Passings Making A Difference

Author:Ed Foreman

“An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.”

Thinking Men Should Real Able Numbers Infinite Passing Passings Judgement Contradiction Exhausted Evident Succession Time Passing Time Passes

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.”

Ifs Way Writing Made Wanted Interesting Sight Passing Passings Damn Passing Through Resentful

Author:Jonathan Meades

“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.”

“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.”

“It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.”

World Looks Harder Breaths Blow Passing Passings Skepticism Fictional Worlds

Author:William Finnegan

“I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.”

Knows Needs Mean Reading Passing Passings Cognition

Author:Alexander Theroux

“I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.”

Feels Littles Creative Player Balls Screens Setting Passing Passings Settings Boxing Little Things Be Creative Athletic

Author:Derrick Rose

“Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.”

Courses Literature Hours Pay Dog Taxes Passing Teeth Passings Educated Parks Why Not Meaningless Brushes Escapism Short Dog

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.”

People Want Dies Next Generations Passing Passings Next Generation Older People Younger Generation Passing It

Author:Vy Higginsen

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

Men Enemy Forgiveness Anger Revenge Passing Superiors Passings Best Revenge Exacting Revenge Revenge Is Sweet Passing It Taking Revenge

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.”

People Moving Young Asks Father Subjects Comfortable Passing Passings Ask Me

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.”

Knows Years Kind Given Strange Band Ten Passing Passings Touring

Author:Ryan Jarman

“I think men spend so much time passing for being men.”

Thinking Men Passing Passings Being Me Time Passing Time Passes

Author:Junot Diaz

“In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our way. She heightened the sense of social conscience in the New Deal generally. To her great credit, she was early on the side of the blacks in their fight for civil rights. She had a tendency to participate, which easily oozed over into meddlesomeness.”

Way Fighting Social Sides Term Results Deals Rights Conscience Credit Passing Passings Tendencies Civil Rights Legacy Not Sure Historic Deposits New Deal

Author:William A. Rusher

“Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep passing them on. I don't hang onto them myself at all. I have very few needs like that.”

Needs Shows Gone Passing Passings

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.”

Baby Kissing Bills Stores Passing Passings

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.”

Thinking Way Kind Long Real Joy Childhood Special Bases Yeah Sacred Folks Passing Passings Purity Adulthood Real Joy

Author:Pete Docter

“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”

Reason Marriage Passing Passings Seducing Vigilance Amiable

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

Life Motivational Wish Pleasure Steps Seeing Higher Achievement Difficulty Passing Passings

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.”

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Author:Alexis Taylor

“My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through the city and don't notice that you're in a really beautiful neighborhood, or that you're passing a beautiful building. It's nice, as an exercise, to keep aware that you're in a really lucky place.”

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Author:Frankie Cosmos

“The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.”

“I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.”

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Author:Christian Wiman

“They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.”

Ifs Giving Dies Dying Passing Passings Tickets Highways

Author:Malachy McCourt

“Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.”

Ifs World Want Trying Lasts Movement Endless Passing Passings Stakes Transient Flux

Author:Edward Hirsch

“No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.”

People Ifs Want Humans Persons Matter Character Stories Bigs Human Beings Roles Ten Deserve Passing Passings Serving Seconds Entity Passing Through

Author:Clive Owen

“I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that you cannot help seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful and radiant things that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.”

Heart Enough Helping Hands Light Beautiful Beauty Seeing Love You Weak Drawing Foolish Passing Passings Belonging Radiant Frivolous

Author:Roy Croft

“And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.”

“Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.”

People Years Wells Week Planets Messages Communicate Passing Passings

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.”

Years Mean Quality Our Lives Passing Passings

Author:Louise Hay

“I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.”

Men Writing Wanted Song Social Written Broken Scene Aspect Passing Passings Writing Songs Kim Exchanging

Author:Kevin Drew

“I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.”

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Author:Karina Longworth