Emmylou Harris Quotes
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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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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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
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Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.
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'Ralph's Party' was supposed to be a psychological thriller, but I fell in love with all my characters and wanted only the best for them.
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Every life is precious.
