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"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."

Poetry, People

"I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did."

Death, Hope, Waiting

"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."

Desire, Limits

"I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes."

Life, People, Day, Detail

"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."

Living, Philosophy

"Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying."

Time, Saying, Singing, Talk

"Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon."

Music, Thought, Europe, Grandparents

"I play music the way it was played in yesteryear."

Music, Play

"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."

Heart, Old

"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."

Music, Work, Dedication, Desire

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"Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always."

Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet

Beginning,

"Good seasons start with good beginnings."

Sparky Anderson, American Coach

Beginning, Beginnings, Seasons

"It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this."

Robert Asprin, American Author

Beginning, Collaboration

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Beginning, Nationalism

"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."

Bille August, Danish Director

Beginning,

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Beginning, Confession, Evil, First

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

Mary Austin, American Writer

Beginning, End, Moon

"The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning."

Michael D. Barnes, American Politician

Beginning, Fight, Laws, Safety

"I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up."

Paul Begala, American Journalist

Beginning, Democrats

"We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation."

Marsha Blackburn, American Politician

Beginning, Country, Debate, Nation