Billy Parish Quotes
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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My health is fine.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.
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The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
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You make the road by walking.
