Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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I'm a dork!
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.
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Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.
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As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
