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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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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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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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
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Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.
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I went on YouTube and saw videos of Angelina Jolie on some talk show showing people switchblade tricks, and I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'
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A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
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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.