Lee Hazlewood Quotes
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
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My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
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I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.
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9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.
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I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
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How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
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There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
