Carlene Carter Quotes
I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down!
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
