Calamity Jane Quotes

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

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• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Work
  • Day
  • Dog

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Work
  • Home
  • Community

• I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Respect
  • Theatre

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • People
  • Different
  • Party

• We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thoughts
  • Products
  • Whatever

• When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • School
  • Book
  • Mother

• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Logic
  • Sword

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • School
  • Art
  • Bad

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• Chase away sorrow by living

  

  Melissa Marr
  • Living
  • Sorrow

• Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Political
  • Popular
  • Face

• My voice is not for me. Every time I make a sentence I think how many people for how many generations had a voice that no one could hear. At most they will be remembered as numbers; in many cases, even numbers don’t exist.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time

• Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Happen

• I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

  

  Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
  • Track
  • Dirt
  • Lakes

• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Married
  • Texas
  • August