James Lee Burke Quotes

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

James Lee Burke

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AgeGreatCareYouNobodyWant

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

Joe Frazier

I AmWantMoreThanAm

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

John Bytheway

WorkHomeBestMountainAppreciation

Everything is so convenient in New York.

Matthew Modine

New YorkNewEverythingConvenient

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

Slim Whitman

SingingVoiceEveryoneNormalThinks

The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

Rodney Crowell

ProcessDiamondsWayDirtUpJust

Parents and kids know they should pass up the fries for an apple and exchange the video game for a game of tag - but knowing and doing are certainly different things.

Dean Ornish

ParentsGameDoingAppleKnowUp

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk

PeopleIdeasThoughtLegendPowerful

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Ava DuVernay

WomenGreatI AmJealousThinkWho

I'm proud of my thighs because they've gotten me to where I am today and give me the power that I have to play my best.

Ali Krieger

TodayPowerBestI AmMeProud

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

William O. Douglas

HistoryDeepRightSourcesOur

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

William H. Seward

PowerWealthTrueNationOverHold

Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in the most efficient way.

Piyush Goyal

FreedomPlantWayCompanyRather

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