Alan Jackson Quotes
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I love books.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.
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You are a spirit, then,you Man, and not a Manat all.You are a spirit and you dwellwithin the guts of mortal beast.
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Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects.
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Trade and wealth creation is not all upside. It is failure, too. Failure is a necessary component to growth and success. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times but also hit 714 home runs. We need to let failing entities fail. Only then will successful people turn these enterprises back into wealth-creating vehicles again. “Too big to fail” is a concept that perpetuates failure and saps vitality from the rest of the wealth creators to do so.
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Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
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Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
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I've had several working-man songs that I like.
