Billy Joe Shaver Quotes
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words. I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.
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Todo es un poco de oscuridad, hasta la misma luz.
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Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.
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I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
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I'm a mellow guy, and I feel like my music is mellow.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.
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I'm a serious guy, and hungry, too.
