Dwight Yoakam Quotes
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
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A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.
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When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
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It's one thing getting the job of Doctor Who, which is wonderful. And then the next thing they say to you is, 'We're going to announce it live on television!' And you think, 'That's not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!'
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
