Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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He said, we'll take us into town, lay our money downI'll bring you the sweetest thing that growsBecause the fairest ones in sight are bloomin every nightAt a tavern called the Sabre and the Rose..
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
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Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.
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It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.
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I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.
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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
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I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
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I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.