K. W. Jeter Quotes
Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
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When you win one on this day, they become special ones and they get a special place in the barn. We've been blessed with some good ones.
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
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In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.
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President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
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I'm ashamed of what I did, but I'm not ashamed of what I've done to correct my mistakes..... I'm proud of who I am.
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Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
