Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.) Quotes
We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
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To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.
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Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that's unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.
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We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
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We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
