Lucinda Williams Quotes
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.
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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.
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But every class struggle is a political struggle.
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
