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There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
Sonny Rollins

Great, Mean, Musicians

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
John Sergeant Wise

Sky, Clear, Thunder

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
Russell Banks

Political, Vision, Rights

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
Russell Banks

Down, Else, Road

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
George Thorogood

Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.
Kathy Freston

Time, Enjoy, Breakfast

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.
Isaiah Thomas

Work, Him, Choice

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.
Curtis Jones

Play, Whatever, Used

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Love, Music, Time

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Hope, Through, Study

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'
Sam Rockwell

Good, Fun, Enough

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
Dennis Brown

Few, Chosen, Dennis

I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.
Georgia Jagger

Sometimes, Quite, Goes

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
John Fogerty

Great, Dance, Though

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
Diane Cilento

Funny, School, Pretty

I carry one black mascara and one brown.
Heather Morris

Black, Carry, Mascara

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.
Joe Elliott

Good, Great, Crazy

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
Foxy Brown

Year, Almost, Name

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
Peter Berg

Experience, Smart, Girl

I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?
Michael Davis

Guy, Radical, Hi

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Ernie Pyle

Deep, Living, Soldier

I went on this school trip, and I didn't really care about acting or about media. I wanted to be a racing driver. I went to go to the toilet and walked into this auditioning room where Stephen Fry was, and he must have taken a fancy. Him and the producer stuck me in this small TV movie, called 'Tom Brown's Schooldays,' which was a great experience.
Alex Pettyfer

Great, Experience, School

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
Ronnie Spector

Love, Power, Girl

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.
Keith O'Brien

Life, Government, Human

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
Brian Austin Green

Through, Found, Artists

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
Eddie Huang

Work, Business, Black

Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.
Matthew Lillard

Good, Thought, She

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
Billy Eckstine

Fact, Knew, Maybe

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Brown

God, Black, Nation

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
JoJo

Girl, White, Jamming

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