Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.) Quotes
I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.
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Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
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Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.
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I don't want to commit to too many films, as it would result in getting out of touch with what is happening in the industry.
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When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.
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I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
