Benmont Tench Quotes
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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Let us have peace.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
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I want to do all roles. The sky's the limit.
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Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.
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My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
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We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
