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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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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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
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One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the '80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it's a thing of the past - it's not.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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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.
