Emmylou Harris Quotes
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
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Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.
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Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.
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Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
