Dwight Yoakam Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't like controversy.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
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I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
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The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
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I have already made it clear that there is an atmosphere of complete peace in the country. This country has never been intolerant and won’t be so in the future too.
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The future has a lot to do with the past.
