Kin Hubbard Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
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I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
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Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
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I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
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Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.
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Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
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Th' only way t' entertain some folks is t' listen t' 'em.
