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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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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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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When first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble that everybody else had in trying to solve problems and to manipulate and to really do things with matrices. So they had gone to Hilbert for help and Hilbert said the only time he had ever had anything to do with matrices was when they came up as a sort of by-product of the eigenvalues of the boundary-value problem of a differential equation. So if you look for the differential equation which has these matrices you can probably do more with that. They had thought it was a goofy idea and that Hilbert didn't know what he was talking about. So he was having a lot of fun pointing out to them that they could have discovered Schrödinger’s wave mechanics six month earlier if they had paid a little more attention to him.
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I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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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.
