Barbara Mandrell Quotes
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Making music is fantastic.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.
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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
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To get things done, you have to get people together.
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I clearly haven't made a good enough impression on people. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
