Dwight Yoakam Quotes
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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I'm a television junkie.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
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I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
