Cullen Hightower Quotes
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
Quotes to Explore
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
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Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
