Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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 voted for Barack Obama.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
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Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
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In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
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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.
