Hank Williams Quotes
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
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You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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The truth sustains me.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.12 (15 June 1946)
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There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
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The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
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I don't know, it's odd that girls ask if they can hug me. Don't ask, do it. I'm just a regular guy.
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
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I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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'Cause I've got friends in low placesWhere the whiskey drownsAnd the beer chases my blues away.And I'll be okay.I'm not big on social graces;Think I'll slip on down to the oasis.Oh, I've got friends in low places.
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Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. “I have seen young boys burned alive,” he said. “I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.
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There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
