Joe Diffie Quotes

I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.

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• To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Brother

• When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Successful

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.

  

  Parker Young
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Food

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goals

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
  • Fearless

• I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Want
  • Meat

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
  • Friendship
  • Outside

• My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Movie

• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Unknown

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Night

• When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Comedy

• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Destiny
  • Ambition
  • Sing

• Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Imagination
  • Questions
  • Materialization

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.

  

  Joe Diffie
  • Walk
  • Line
  • Straight