Vince Gill Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
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I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.
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And this is how I see it today: it’s not the neighborhood that’s sick, it’s not Naples, it’s the entire earth, it’s the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.
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I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
