Natalie Maines Quotes
We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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We care about margins.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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When we speak of mom winning custody or of dad getting visitation time, we speak of someone winning, someone losing. When we speak of mom or dad spending 'parent time' with a child, we speak of two parents, not a parent versus a visitor.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.
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Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges.
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We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.
