Billy Joe Shaver Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware of this and confront it and break through it by doing things that shock and surprise people because they thought we could never achieve at that level.
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I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
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Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
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I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.
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When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.
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I'm a serious guy, and hungry, too.
