Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes
I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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I never go wild with nails.
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Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.
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I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.
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There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
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I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
