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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
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An athlete may not know what they're putting in their body.