Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

Rickie Lee Skaggs

• Music
• Thinking
• May

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• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Does

• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Plan

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Napoleon
  • Watergate

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Night
  • Islam

• It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Knowledge

• I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • History
  • Looks
  • Complicated

• I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • May
  • Movie
  • Moving

• Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Good
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • May