Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I love working the legislative process.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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We want to get young people excited about inventing so they'll be future inventors, and change the world.
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A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
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I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.
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I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
