Garth Brooks Quotes
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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It's weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you've made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.
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The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
