Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Too clever is dumb.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
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A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
