Mirriam Johnson (Jessi Colter) Quotes

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

Mirriam Johnson

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• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  

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• Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

  

  Young Jeezy
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• I'm not an architectural composer.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

  

  Ted Strickland
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• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
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• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
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• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
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• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
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• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
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• We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

  

  Larry Smith
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• Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

  

  Madison Marlow
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• I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

  

  Yelawolf
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• Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they don't want to talk about it, or you have to really work up to it. You have to carefully construct the conversation so that they feel open enough to discuss some of those things with you.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
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• Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.

  

  B. R. Hayden
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• In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Different
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• What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

  

  Mirriam Johnson