Waylon Jennings Quotes

It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.

Waylon Jennings

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Culture

• All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • World
  • Different
  • Words

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Cute

• T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Work
  • Question

• When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Child
  • Identity
  • Name

• I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Research
  • Grateful

• To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Same

• I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • She
  • Day
  • Before

• Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Will

• Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Business
  • Night
  • Value

• Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Lost
  • College
  • Realize

• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hurt
  • Effect
  • Terribly

• What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • Power
  • Lost

• I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

  

  Owen King
  • Life
  • Writing
  • True

• Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Up
  • Power

• I couldn't give a shit if my records sell or not.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Records
  • Sell

• I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

  

  Joe Mantello
  • Good

• It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.

  

  Waylon Jennings