Kris Kristofferson Quotes
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
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I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
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Next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate conference. What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.
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Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
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There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.
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In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
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For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.
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Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
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A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
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If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.
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In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.
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If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
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I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
