Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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I want to do another reality show. It's based on The Mole. It's about sexually transmitted diseases. It's called "God, I Hope That's a Mole."
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.
