Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Loudon Wainwright III

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• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

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• Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

  

  Damon Wayans
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• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

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• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

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• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

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• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
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• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
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• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
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• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
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• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

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  • American
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• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

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• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

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  • Europe
  • Terrorism
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• Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Money
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• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

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• Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

  

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• When you're a music celebrity, your fans are used to spending money on you. They go to your shows. They want to look like you. They want to be like you. You become part of their life.

  

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• I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

  

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  • Idea

• If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

  

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  • Song
  • Titles

• Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

  

  Lzzy Hale
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Space

• If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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