Doc Watson Quotes
I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
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I live in New York City, but it doesn't matter if you're in any large, metropolitan area, there's kind of a little bit of survival-of-the-fittest, so when you encounter kindness or people going out of their way in an empathetic way, it's almost startling.
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I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
