Charlie Daniels Quotes
We will miss Ransom's presence and are indebted to him for his many years of service.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
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You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.
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We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
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If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
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All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
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We will miss Ransom's presence and are indebted to him for his many years of service.
