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So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album. -- Sonny Terry
Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. -- Cab Calloway
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. -- Lee Trevino
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. -- Cab Calloway
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. -- Golda Meir
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. -- Jimi Hendrix
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. -- Francis Parkman
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall. -- Richard Petty
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it. -- Carl Perkins
That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life. -- Buck Owens
Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man. -- Jose Andres Puerta
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. -- Anne Hutchinson
Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes. -- Dana Gould
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. -- Robert B. Laughlin
I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club. -- Lena Horne
Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola... -- Mark Pryor
Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man. -- Jose Andres Puerta
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt... -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have. -- David Baldacci
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. -- Dorothy Malone
I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried. -- Lesley Visser
Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric. -- Demetri Martin
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. -- Harry Houdini
I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus. -- Patrick Fabian
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. -- Willie Nelson
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer. -- Frederick Sanger
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. -- Wyclef Jean
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind. -- Clementine Hunter
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement. -- John Gierach
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. -- Robert E. Howard
A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black." -- Jamaica Kincaid
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? -- Mother Jones
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start. -- Issey Miyake
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. -- Roger Bannister
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton. -- Sam Donaldson
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either. -- Richard Engel
I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely. -- Birdy
I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers]. -- Lena Horne
Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.' -- Demetri Martin
I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets. -- Woody Harrelson
It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government. -- Marco Rubio
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? -- Mother Jones
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. -- Solomon Northup
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. -- Robin Williams
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. -- Robert Redford
I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination. -- Brunello Cucinelli
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. -- Malcolm X
Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads? -- Kevin Plank
I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. -- Phil Robertson
My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks. -- Kevin Plank
Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. -- Kathryn Lasky
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus. -- Alice Dreger
I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin. Extra-long-sleeved T-shirts are a lifesaver for me. I wear them either underneath a shirt with the sleeve pulled out of the cuff, or underneath gypsy tops, tunic tops and waistcoats. -- Twiggy
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. -- Rick Perry
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. -- Willie Nelson
I love soft-cotton white T-shirts. -- Kevin Hart
I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins. -- Will Ferrell
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. -- Eartha Kitt
I quite enjoy a high-waisted cotton panty. -- Zoe Kazan
Let there be worse cotton and better men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have to have the cotton candy shipped in. -- Meg White
Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor. -- Charles Evers
I never thought my cotton gin would change history. -- Eli Whitney
A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool. -- Ashley Madekwe
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. -- Thomas Carlyle
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble. -- John Gunther
The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world. -- Joe Louis
Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat? -- Benjamin Graham
Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear. -- Phil Gramm
I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job. -- Evan Mecham
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton. -- Chael Sonnen
Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. -- Alice Walker
Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high. -- Ira Gershwin
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle. -- Tadashi Yanai
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said" my tummy itches. -- Steve Carell
Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair. -- Elvis Presley
Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool. -- Peter Lawford
Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickinÂ´ heart, had a front clasp. -- J.R. Ward
I'm into cotton underwear. I don"t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy. -- Nelly Furtado
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown... -- Yohji Yamamoto
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. -- Anais Nin
I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day. -- Gisele Bundchen
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world. -- Joseph Mitchell
The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness -- Osamu Dazai
Combine a fog machine and a cotton candy maker to create delicious mystery. This is the heart of romance. -- Jarod Kintz
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface. -- Bradley Chicho
Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics. -- Tadashi Yanai
Some people grow cotton, while I have a t-shirt farm. The rainy season is when I get the most visitors. -- Jarod Kintz
Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea. -- Jethro Tull
The wind crooned softly as it dusted the snow against the windows, wrapping them in a thick and fluffy cotton blanket. -- Soheir Khashoggi
Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance. -- Sylvia Plath
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. -- Yukio Mishima
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. -- Albert Einstein
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. -- Philip Freelon
Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. -- Margaret Atwood
You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs. -- Stephen Furst
You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy. -- Heidi Klum
a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton. -- Julia Peterkin
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices. -- Kevin Spacey
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things. -- Saul Bellow
I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since. -- Johnny Cash
I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day. -- Martha Stewart
I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano. -- Pinetop Perkins
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?" -- B. J. Novak
Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday. -- Luther Allison
You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. -- Ryan Murphy
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds? -- B. J. Novak
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern. -- Gerard Butler
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't think about work. -- Domenico Dolce
Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy. -- Richelle Mead
Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ. -- Oscar Romero
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. -- Timothy Noah
If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog. -- Charley Reese
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. -- Richard Hovey

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