David Allan Coe Quotes
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
H. P. Lovecraft -
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman -
I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
Yancy Butler -
When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
Iman -
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
Samantha Power
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
Rachel Joyce -
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Dan Jenkins -
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
Nash Grier -
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Val Kilmer -
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
Edgar Winter -
I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I just love the culture of Melbourne.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.
Ovid
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And what they don't see,Is what is killing me.It's blessing and a curseThat love is blind.
Garth Brooks -
The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
Said Nursi -
The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.
Jennifer Morrison -
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
Katherine Howe -
A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.
Eileen Atkins -
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
David Allan Coe