Merle Travis Quotes
You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.
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Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
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If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
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I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.
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I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.
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Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.
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Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
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You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
