Billy Joe Shaver Quotes
I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.
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Not Today is definitely a movie that you have to see.
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I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.
