Emmylou Harris Quotes
I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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Writing is very cathartic for me.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
