Kathy Mattea Quotes
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
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I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
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The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?
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So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.
