Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
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I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
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My character is Toni Topaz, and she's from the new-generation Archie Comics. I will be rocking the signature pink hair.
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I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.
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I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
