William Gilmore Simms Quotes
The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.
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Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.
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The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.
