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.
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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.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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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.
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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.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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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.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just love the culture of Melbourne.
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And what they don't see,Is what is killing me.It's blessing and a curseThat love is blind.
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If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.
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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.
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Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.
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My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
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It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
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The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.
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My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.
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I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
