Jackie DeShannon Quotes
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?
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Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.
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Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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You don't want to believe everything you hear.
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
