Ashley Monroe Quotes
To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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If I didn't do music, I would do something to help people out.
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My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
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I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.
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To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
