Rodney Crowell Quotes

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.

Rodney Crowell

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MoneyCreativeTroubleGoWayFirst

A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

Jim Inhofe

LawBadCountryRule Of LawMean

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

LifeGoodSportsTimeBaseballEnd

I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.

Andrew O'Hagan

ParentsCityLovedYouSometimes

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Andre Breton

WorthFindOthersMoreOneselfThan

By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine

WorkKnowsWorkman

When I shot 'Private Practice,' Amy Brenneman made a point of really befriending me before we started shooting.

Stephen Amell

PracticeMePointShootingStarted

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Smokey Robinson

SongWantTryNeverWriteAlways

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Tony Benn

MomentDeathFeelYouKnowWhy

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

Rita Ora

HelpI CanPersonWhy

I feel like I have been totally blessed with everything that I have done.

Ruben Studdard

BlessedFeelDoneEverythingBeen

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

FaithProgressiveActivismLeft

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

FearWomenAloneHistoryMenFree

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