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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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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I have connected by phone with customers who have left negative reviews and had a chance to get to know them. Not only was I able to solve their problems, a lot of the customers were so happy with the customer service that they become repeat customers.
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Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.
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Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
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Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
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There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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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.
