Ricky Skaggs Quotes

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Ricky Skaggs

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MusicTodayCountryNewWayAlmost

I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

Robert Palmer

MusicTimeMeSongRoadTalking

When one teaches, two learn.

Robert Half

BrainyLearnTwoTeaches

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Tom Vilsack

LosingPoliticalAmericaMoreRural

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

Tom Felton

LoveBackGardenBigGetFan

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere

HappyLovedCannotMakeLoved One

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Joni Mitchell

WhyHardSingActressSongsThem

Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.

Jon Lovitz

PeopleMeThinkingSaidApparently

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

Derrick Jensen

ListeningWorldOpen-MindedNatural

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Antony Sher

LifeYouComfortableMoreEverything

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

Shemar Moore

FoodFallWantEatChinese FoodSit

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

Tia Carrere

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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Marilyn Manson

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