Carlene Carter Quotes
There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I know I look super young.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.
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We want Iowa to remain red. We have worked so hard to get here. We will not be a purple state: we will be a red state.
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Laughter is no enemy to learning.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
