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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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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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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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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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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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
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I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
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Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
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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.
