Chris Isaak Quotes

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
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• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

  

  Nate Powell
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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
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• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
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• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.

  

  Katherine Dunn
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• We all want to be the sexy girl.

  

  Karen McDougal
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• Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.

  

  Shakira
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• I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.

  

  Busy Philipps
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• My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

  

  Chris Isaak
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