Dwight Yoakam Quotes
Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
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Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.
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A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.
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I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.
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The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.
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Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
