Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes
I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.
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I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest!
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I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
