Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

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You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

Melvin Van Peebles

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Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo.

Michael Bisping

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The Clippers are more valuable in Los Angeles. It's a phenomenal city, a phenomenal market, phenomenal everything.

Steve Ballmer

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Having spent almost two decades setting up and running Fortis, our mission of saving and enriching lives is an integral part of my being. Over time, this has inspired me to do more direct service and give back to society a little of what I have received in abundance.

Shivinder Mohan Singh

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'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets.

Michaela Watkins

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He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

Miles Davis

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Lord Byron

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In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Jason Isaacs

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My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Janis Ian

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You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Colin Powell

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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Arthur Ashe

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