George Strait Quotes

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Courage

• 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
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• 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
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Person
  • Stillness

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• 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
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • Pen

• 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
  • Intellectuals
  • Condescending
  • Demeanour

• 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
  • Important
  • Done
  • Bad

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• 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
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Lose

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • End
  • Yourself

• Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • World

• Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Proud
  • Looks
  • Horse

• I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Beens
  • Has

• I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

  

  George Strait
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