J. D. Souther Quotes
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
