Gene Autry Quotes
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.
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By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.
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I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.
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I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
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Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.
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As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
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Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people
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My muse appears to me in a different form every time a new idea for a song is created. Sometimes I'm inspired by music or film, but more typically it's my surroundings that truly inspire me. Family, work, school, the city I live in, the books I read... All of these things inspire the creation of a song.
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If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on.
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I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.
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Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
