Nanci Griffith Quotes
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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Theatre is one of those things that children will love if they're helped to get there to see it. No child will find his or her own way to the theatre.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
