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Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

Loudon Wainwright III

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 5, 1946

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School Late Drama Actor Kid Always

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Inspirational Future Happiness Design

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

Father Parents Week Year Look Back

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

People Think Write Up Things Poems

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.

Age Time Thought Ridiculous Will

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Effort Political Security Place More

The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.

Simple Act Dramatic Life-Saving Many

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

Fear Depression Believe Thinking You

In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards.

Joseph Stiglitz

Improvement Research Key Create Land

People seem to think I'm Satan.

People Think Satan Seem

'Too Young to Fall in Love' is an earlier cut from Motley Crue, but it's one of their best. I'm so drastically different as an artist from their sound, but the challenge of making it my own is what makes doing a cover song fun.

Love Challenge Best Fun Love Is

You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.

Leader You Know Want Never Weeds

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

Music Together I Am Working Still

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