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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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.
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I work during the days and have night classes on Wednesday and Thursday and live with my partner, who is in school during the days and works Wednesday through Saturday nights. Monday and Tuesday are therefore our nights, and we both get our work out of the way so we can actually spend time together.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
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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.
