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The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.


Bruce Springsteen

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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NANETTE L. AVERY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
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BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL Your life ISN’T a result of your history. Your life is a result of what you ‘decided’ the even...
DONNA M THOMAS In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
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BRANDON FLOWERS As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about ei...
EBERHARD WEBER it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
JIMMY IOVINE I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
ANDREW SHUE Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is m...
USHER Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS It is possible to reach a result. My hopes are growing day by day.
JAN PRONK There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no d...
AMANDA CREW My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I...
FUTURE To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of...
LL COOL J As a result, these families are being destroyed.
MARTIN FREEMAN Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
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JIM CULLEN The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with th...
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ANNE FRANK My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.
RENE BURRI Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I&#...
LESLEY NICOL In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the...
JOE HILL People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
DR. ALLAN FROMME People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
ALLAN FROMME, DR. I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead en...
AMIRI BARAKA None of this was a reaction to the situation with the University of Mississippi. Our meeting with hi...
JOE GOTTFRIED As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I la...
CHARLES DICKENS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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ERNIE ELS I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
ANDREW SHUE There is a distinct lack of efforts on the part of the singers, as a result of which the songs being...
ASHA BHOSLE The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw my...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
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 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...
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