Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
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We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
