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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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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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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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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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.
