Rickey Medlocke Quotes
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.
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Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.
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He’d grown a mustache since Randall had last seen him. It was hard to understand why: He looked devious enough without it.
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Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
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As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.
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If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
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Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus.
