Rickie Lee Skaggs (Ricky Skaggs) Quotes
Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I love cycling.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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When I moved from corporate to consumer banking, I brought a lot of synergy with me.
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People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
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Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.
