Emmylou Harris Quotes
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
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To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
