Waylon Jennings Quotes
A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
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There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
