Cullen Hightower Quotes
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I owe everything to France.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
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Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
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The labeling of products of the Jewish state by the European Union brings back dark memories. Europe should be ashamed of itself. It took an immoral decision. Of the hundreds of territorial conflicts around the world, it chose to single out Israel and Israel alone, while it's fighting with its back against the wall against the wave of terror.
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'The Offending Words and Images, in their natural and ordinary meaning, mean and were understood to mean that I, as the Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of GIC, am guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the CPF.'
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In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to switch contexts quickly, as I contributed to everything from managing the reception desk to building their website.
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My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
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Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.
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I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.
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A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
