Billy Joe Shaver Quotes

I churched it and churched it. I got born again, slowly. I've slid back several times, but it seemed like it don't matter. God will give you seven times 70 a chance. I've pushed it to the limit a time or two.

Billy Joe Shaver

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
  • Liar
  • Pen

• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Think
  • inspirational
  • Sky

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Down
  • Head
  • Idiots

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Always
  • Say
  • Will

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reason
  • Religious
  • Conflict

• Hello, my name is Zach Galifianakis, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hope

• Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Long
  • Road
  • Travel

• I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • World
  • Real

• If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Work
  • Rest
  • Value

• There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Teach
  • Sphere

• Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • True
  • Society

• I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

  

  Andrew Davidson
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Necessary

• I churched it and churched it. I got born again, slowly. I've slid back several times, but it seemed like it don't matter. God will give you seven times 70 a chance. I've pushed it to the limit a time or two.

  

  Billy Joe Shaver
  • God
  • Chance
  • Pushed