Don Henley Quotes
O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.
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After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.
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The art is long, life is short.
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'The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.'
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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
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O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king.
