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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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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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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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Language may not determine the way we think, but it does influence the way we perceive and remember, and it affects the ease with which we perform mental tasks.
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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.
