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When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.


Bruce Hornsby

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Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
ELIZABETH ESTY Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let...
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DAN WAKEFIELD I must tell you I am ashamed when top leaders in this country and citizens of this country and even ...
RICHARD GEPHARDT This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil r...
DEBRA NESS I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,
CHAD KROEGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I try to take people on some kind of journey during the show and people seem glad to travel with me....
COLIN HAY I agree that Dr. King contributed to civil rights. What I don't agree with is that the only way you ...
SCOTT CASE I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.
HOWARD DEAN While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights?
DANIEL ORTEGA If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are...
RONALD REAGAN For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I...
AUGUST WILSON The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from...
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SUZY KASSEM Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The w...
TATIANA MASLANY I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your rig...
GAYE ADEGBALOLA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil libe...
AARON RODGERS I think he enjoyed the limelight of this notorious crime and all the people in the courtroom, ... I ...
BILL ANDREWS Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people fr...
RUSH LIMBAUGH People across this country are awakening to their rights and seizing on the promise of the law. But ...
GAO ZHISHENG The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives o...
CHARLES MOORE The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is th...
MITT ROMNEY I don't remember when I played that terrible in a Grand Slam at all, ... But it's the way it goes --...
YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for on...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because...
ED KOCH The best way to solve the problems of the Senate is to encourage people to assert their rights and m...
GOTHOM ARYA I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, no...
MARY ELLEN MARK I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, "Hey, may...
STEPHEN WRIGHT This is the civil rights issue of our time, ... It is no longer blocking schools. It is having the j...
BILL BRADLEY They want to take this to the ultimate extreme. If we go by the history of amendments to the Constit...
CANDACE GINGRICH Nothing like this has been seen in this country. And if it continues moving forward, it's the beginn...
JOSHUA HOYT No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil right...
RAND PAUL When writing a new song I like better, it makes me appreciate the song I wrote before that I didn't ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl...
JENNY LEWIS I see this as a civil rights issue. People who are gay have a right to be treated equally.
PAUL ASH Every record, you want it to be different, and you write differently in different cities. We wrote a...
STEVE BAYS Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I&...
DELTA GOODREM People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different wa...
TORI KELLY We are so very close, ... It would be very disappointing for this body not to be able to stand up fo...
MARK LENO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I wanted the hands to reach out to help the people who were hurt in the hurricane, ... And I wrote d...
COLIN WILSON I think this sends a strong statement about where we stand when it comes to the importance of academ...
JEFF LONG When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA In every civil rights struggle, there is a moment when the tide starts to turn, and I want so much t...
KATE KENDELL I wanted this year's concert to reflect the importance of dance in our culture and in any culture. D...
GAYNELL SHERROD Thanks to Richie's mom for not doing the laundry the day we wrote this song - (Wanted dead or alive)...
JON BON JOVI When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe t...
SIA you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me,
CAT OSTERMAN Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people f...
OSAMA SIBLANI As I said to the President yesterday, this country will stand ready to help in any way that we can,
TONY BLAIR Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge ...
WILLIAM KUNSTLER I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly wel...
PETER PORTER I knew doing a rap-country song like 'Whiskey Do My Talkin'' was a good move, ... It totally opened ...
KIX BROOKS I had wanted to sing a song with Lee Ann for a while, ... I think she's a great singer, and she alwa...
GEORGE STRAIT The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
BABYFACE I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was...
ELLIE GOULDING All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern...
OCTAVIA SPENCER When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wro...
BONNIE RAITT It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater re...
WAYNE SMITH The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're...
HOWARD DEAN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I just wrote the song sitting in my car waiting for my girlfriend. That's about it, man. You will kn...
DARON MALAKIAN This debate isn't about civil rights and the contributions of immigrants. It's about how we address ...
BRAD HAHN Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the lo...
ANAïS NIN I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the m...
HISHAM MATAR This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the co...
NEIL YOUNG In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes...
GEORGE CLOONEY Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. ...
DOROTHY HEIGHT I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a comm...
RUSSELL SIMMONS I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to...
SAMMY CAHN Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to...
TIGER SHROFF I think the country came to the brink of civil war. (They) decided to come together and now the risk...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? The guy who wrote that song wrote eve...
STEPHEN WRIGHT Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil...
KATE ADIE Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where th...
JOEL HODGSON The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and...
BELL HOOKS I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly wel...
PETER PORTER The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they s...
OCTAVIA BUTLER Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I will respect what people will vote. People who fought for what they thought was right even though ...
JOSEPH MUSCAT If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this co...
KINKY FRIEDMAN It was a big surprise for me to be composing music for the Foreign Minister. But as soon as I found ...
WU JUN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW It's whether you can raise a claim under civil rights, a civil action, versus the typical way to cha...
CAROLYN SNURKOWSKI For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country...
DONNIE YEN If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, a...
CHRISETTE MICHELE As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started p...
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BRUCE JENNER Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity pre...
BRUCE MARTON To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good...
BRUCE CATTON In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu...
BRUCE BARTON Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,...
BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t...
BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty...
BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo...
BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th...
BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min...
BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct...
BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you...
BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh...
LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik...
BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa...
LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin...
BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o...
BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t...
BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance...
LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ...
BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas...
LENNY BRUCE