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 try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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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 was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
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Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
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The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.
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I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
