Ingram Cecil Connor III (Gram Parsons) Quotes
We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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I was seven years old. What do you know when you’re seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we’d been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
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I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.
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We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.
