Emmylou Harris Quotes
I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
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I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:
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Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.
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You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.
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Nadie entiende que lo has dado todo. Debes dar más.
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I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
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With my background, I came out of the theater.
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I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.
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The book you don't read won't help.
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I never quite toed the line.
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A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
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I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
