Wanda Jackson Quotes
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.
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I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.
