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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I believe you have to have balance in your life.
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There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.
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A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can 'talk' about him.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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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.
