Dwight Yoakam Quotes

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

Dwight Yoakam

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• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rules
  • Follow
  • Nobody

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
  • WIld

• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • School
  • Health

• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Story
  • Say
  • Legendary

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • People
  • Light
  • Down

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Blame
  • Steps

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.

  

  Tyrone Hayes

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

  

  Alexis Korner
  • Music
  • Society

• I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Music

• I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Music
  • Country