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  • My family is basically Gypsies - for real. -- Fairuza Balk
  • My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. -- Brent Spiner
  • The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist. -- Franz Liszt
  • All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals. -- Ronnie Wood
  • I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. -- Diana Quick
  • Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film. -- Stef Penney
  • Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen! -- Ann Wilson
  • Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me. -- Tom Petty
  • We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually. -- Elizabeth Kostova
  • Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas. -- Zygmunt Bauman
  • The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. -- Franz Liszt
  • Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. -- Gerald Brenan
  • Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses. Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous. Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny. -- Cassandra Clare
  • If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities. -- Jack Straw
  • The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world. -- Sarah Thornton
  • I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time. -- Neon Hitch
  • My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know. -- Christopher Lee
  • Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. -- Antonio Tabucchi
  • I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies. -- Matthew Rhys
  • So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories. -- Joely Richardson
  • There are a lot of us little gypsies out there that need to go and find another place you know. A safer, healthier or just a different venue in order to develop and find ourselves. I am so lucky to live the life that I do. -- Drew Barrymore
  • When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.' -- Drew Barrymore
  • Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips -- Audre Lorde
  • Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business. -- Charlie Hunnam
  • And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ... -- Robert James Waller
  • Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own. -- Charles Churchill
  • The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience. -- Paracelsus
  • He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-" You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?" I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies! -- Tabitha Suzuma
  • In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus. -- Danny Huston
  • For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical. -- Noomi Rapace
  • We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there? -- Stephen King
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