George Strait Quotes
I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.
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In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'
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The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
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A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
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I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
