Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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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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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.
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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
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I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
