Alison Krauss Quotes
I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
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I have no other balm to sweeten the bitterness of a harsh and melancholy life than the satisfaction given by the conviction of having always done what I believed to be my duty. God grant that I can say the same at the hour of my death.
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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
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They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
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I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
