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Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

Everybody Knows

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Topic

Things are getting worse

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Everybody Knows

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cohen, Leonard and Sharon Robinson. "Everybody Knows." Performed by Leonard Cohen. I'm Your Man. Columbia Records, 1988.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!

Artur Schnabel

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Topic

Silence The space between

Author

Artur Schnabel

Source

Chicago Daily News

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Schnabel, Artur. Quoted in Chicago Daily News. 11 June 1958.

My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no Fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?

Paul Robeson

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Paul Robeson

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

It is the most violent people who go for love and peace.

John Lennon

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Topic

Peace movement Human nature

Speaker

John Lennon

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Lennon, John. "Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono." Interviewed by David Sheff. Playboy, Jan. 1981.

There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Patti Smith

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Topic

Books

Author

Patti Smith

Source

National Book Award for Patti Smith

Medium

Award acceptance speech Speech

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Smith, Patti. Quoted in National Book Award for Patti Smith, written by Julie Bosman. New York Times, 17 Nov. 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/18awards.html

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Barbra Streisand

Life Magazine

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Topic

Success

Speaker

Barbra Streisand

Source

Life Magazine

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Streisand, Barbra. Quoted in "Success Is a Baked Potato." Life Magazine, 20 Sept. 1963.

We are stardust,
We are golden,
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell

Woodstock

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Topic

Garden of Eden Modern life

Speaker

Joni Mitchell

Source

Woodstock

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Mitchell, Joni. "Woodstock." Ladies of the Canyon. Reprise Records, 1970.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

Quoted in Downbeat Magazine

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Topic

Jazz Nature of music Music

Speaker

Charlie Parker

Source

Downbeat Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Parker, Charlie. Interviewed by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson. Downbeat Magazine, 9 Sept. 1949.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

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Topic

Failure Success

Speaker

Nick Cave

Source

Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cave, Nick. Quoted in Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, written by Ian Johnstone. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.