Douglas Hodge Quotes
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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We care about margins.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
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The thing is, my life is a country song. I don't need to be manufactured, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to say or what to sing.
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She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
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When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
