Waylon Jennings Quotes
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
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It is very clear that the Republicans do not want to raise taxes.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
