I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. ~Dennis Miller
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ~Estelle
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. ~Kirk Hammett
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do not be wise in word; be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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