Waylon Jennings Quotes
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.
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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
