Michael Nesmith Quotes
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre...
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Fashion is one big family.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
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James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre...
