Jimmy Webb Quotes
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I basically grew up in the backwoods.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
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Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
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Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.
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There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.
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I want to put myself in the best position to stay out on the floor.
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The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
