Hal Rothman Quotes
Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.
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As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
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I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.
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No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
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I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.
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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
