Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas Quotes
I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
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It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
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It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.
