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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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
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If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
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I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.
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Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
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As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.
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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.
