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 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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God gives us the power to act for ourselves, but let me tell you something. At five in the morning I have never heard this he says mimicking a knock on the door. Hello Jack, this is Jesus. I will work out today.
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You can't just sit back and think you're gonna pack the paint in and win games. You've gotta guard that three-point line.
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Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
