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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.


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MAY SARTON Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
MAY SARTON It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identif...
ROLLO MAY A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
MAY SARTON Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with...
THERESA MAY In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of remo...
ROLLO MAY On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
THERESA MAY May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try ...
MAY SARTON Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours eve...
THERESA MAY Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfil...
ROLLO MAY Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not pos...
THERESA MAY Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form ...
ROLLO MAY I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That'...
BRIAN MAY Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of s...
THERESA MAY I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
MIKE MAY There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those on...
MAY SARTON I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
THERESA MAY The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.
MIKE MAY Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.
ROLLO MAY While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has fo...
ROLLO MAY Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of lonelin...
ROLLO MAY Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that ...
ROLLO MAY It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
ROLLO MAY Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to thr...
ROLLO MAY One does not become fully human painlessly.
ROLLO MAY Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be marrie...
ROLLO MAY It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into n...
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