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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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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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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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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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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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
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As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
