Tanya Tucker Quotes
At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.
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A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
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The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
