Michelle Waterson Quotes
I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
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Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
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If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
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A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
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In order to govern, you have to win.
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Making sure women get equal pay for equal work remains one of my top priorities.
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I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.
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Someone who takes love away from us devastates the cultural structure we've worked on all our lives, deprives us of that sort of Eden that until that moment had made us appear innocent and lovable. Human beings give the worst of themselves when their cultural clothes are torn off, and they find themselves facing the nakedness of their bodies, they feel the shame of them. In a certain sense the loss of love is the common experience closest to the myth of the expulsion from the earthly paradise: it's the violent end of the illusion of having a heavenly body, it's the discovery of one's own dispensability and perishability.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one.
