Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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He's a poet, he's a picker-He's a prophet, he's a pusher-He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned-He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
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Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week.
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I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training.
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The older I get, the less conservative I become.
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My old man worked for Pan American.
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Make believin in foreverIs just a lie.And it seems a little sadderEach time we try.'Cause it's a shame to makeThe same mistakes again,And again.It's over.Nobody wins.
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I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.
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In a piece of my mind the world can't eraseI remember the time and the look on your faceAnd I will 'till the wind blows the stars from the sky'cause the road never ends and the soul never diesBe who you arejust as long as you canKnow in your heart I'm still your manHeadin for homestarlight and stone..
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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
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I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.
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I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.
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When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.
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As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.
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I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.
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I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.
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What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that.
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I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.
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There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.
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That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.
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Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend.
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Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.