Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I'm not really trying to be a stand-up comedian. I have a huge amount of respect for the guys who do it. That's their livelihood. That's their job. It's just something that I enjoy.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
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I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.