Willie Nelson Quotes

I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Willie Nelson

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I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Melanie Lynskey

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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

Maurice Sendak

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I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

John Rowland

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My wife and I will often have conversations about 'Good Times' and 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sanford and Son.' They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.

Sterling K. Brown

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As a businessman, Trump preyed on the hopes and anxieties of struggling middle-class families. He cheated and scammed employees and customers alike. He left behind a trail of bankrupted companies. Past is prologue, and Trump has continued to pursue his own aggrandizement ruthlessly and relentlessly as a candidate and as president-elect.

Tom Steyer

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A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

Robert Dallek

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Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.

Ryan Bethencourt

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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Louise Fletcher

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A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Jules Shear

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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Dolly Parton

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Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

Brene Brown

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The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.

Brandon Cruz

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