Dwight Yoakam Quotes
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Everything is real on me.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.
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You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.
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My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.
