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Bruce Springsteen
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for ou... SUSAN COLLINS Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable... J.D. SALINGER Now Louisiana has been laid low by the violence of Mother Nature, ... We are grateful for your prese... DAVID RABE We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our paren... NANCY FRIDAY My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their re... GABRIELLE APLIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again. JIMMY IOVINE Do not reside in the past; live in the now and forge your dreams forward. SCOTTIE SOMERS They really stepped it up in the second period. We could have laid down and let them keep their come... DEREK DAMON It speaks a lot for our players that we kept our composure and didn't fold. In the past we would hav... JENNY PFEIFFER I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. NICK CARTER Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ... DAN PEARCE Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor; which is probably more than she ever did. GROUCHO MARX Our elders, and our elders’ kin, and their kin before them, fought to keep Sunningrocks in our ter... ERIN HUNTER I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan. RITA ORA We're concerned about children that reside in this area -- them getting connected with their parents... JANET JOHNSON By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power... CASS SUNSTEIN The best way we can honor the pioneers—the best way for us to repay our debt of gratitude to them�... PRESIDENT DIETER F. UCHTDORF What I found out on Christmas Day 1984, through biochemical evidence, was that telomeres could be le... CAROL W. GREIDER We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. BENJAMIN WHORF This is by far the best team we've played down here. We battled with them but their pitching was a l... BRIAN GRUBER Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now... GREGORY MAGUIRE I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. NICK CARTER [Also included is a faux Hives documentary narrated by Little Steven Van Zandt .] Apparently Bruce S... PELLE ALMQVIST It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA And that to me, still, is the exceptional thing about Bruce Springsteen. He writes about ordinary th... ANTHONY ESPOSITO I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. JON LANDAU Between games we talked about how we let each other down by not giving our best effort in a couple i... ASHLEY LONCARICH Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si... ROBIN THICKE Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey] SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou... SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave. SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black. SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one. SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!" SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me. SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a... SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs. SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves... SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire. SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City. SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light. SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing... SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t... SEX AND THE CITY Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time... SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m... SEX AND THE CITY I love you but it's not my job to fix your finances. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY It took me a really long time to get here, but I'm here. Carrie, you're the one. [Mr.Big] SEX AND THE CITY Life is not all about sex. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ... SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so hig... SEX AND THE CITY My character, she's kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people... SEX AND THE CITY I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But... SEX AND THE CITY Charlotte: So how are you? Carrie: I'm good. How are you? Charlotte: Great. Carrie: I to... SEX AND THE CITY
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being abl... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come f... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I was real good at music and real bad at everything else. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worr... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN We have some goats, some chickens, and we used to have pigs. There used to be two ostriches as well,... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition. JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard... JESSICA SPRINGSTEEN I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that shoul... BRUCE COCKBURN There's a bright spot in every dark cloud. BRUCE BERESFORD Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the prin... TAMMY BRUCE Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off... TAMMY BRUCE For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be... TAMMY BRUCE Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a bur... TAMMY BRUCE Republicans have never been good at public relations. TAMMY BRUCE The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then ... TAMMY BRUCE From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the med... TAMMY BRUCE One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with... TAMMY BRUCE Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement. TAMMY BRUCE For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. TAMMY BRUCE The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ... TAMMY BRUCE One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. TAMMY BRUCE Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything ... TAMMY BRUCE As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I... TAMMY BRUCE The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is th... TAMMY BRUCE