J. D. Souther Quotes
I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.
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Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
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Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
