Kris Kristofferson Quotes
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done.
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If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
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To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however 'good' I may become, remains unchanged.
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If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
