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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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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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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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.
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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
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That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.
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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
