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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Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.
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I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.
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I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.
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He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
