Earl Scruggs Quotes
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
