George Strait Quotes
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure -
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid -
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Edmund Morgan -
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
Lakshmi Pratury -
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen -
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
Edmund Phelps -
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Carine Roitfeld -
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
Ted Allen -
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
Bassem Youssef -
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
Laura Carmichael -
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
Ted Dexter -
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
George Barr McCutcheon -
I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.
Usain Bolt -
I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
Margaret Mahy -
Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.
Dennis Hastert -
I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.
George Strait