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“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

Country Able Lasts Generations Sitting Gains Radio Buttons Banging Osmosis

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.”

People Looks Lasts Sides Attention Hell Paid Last Time Bright Side

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.”

People Way Years Country Enough Lasts Lost Four Heard Our Country Four Years Had Enough Drifting

Author:Ted Yoho

“FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.”

Years Lasts Faces Nations Television Years Ago Program Twenties Tables Eight Fifty Twenty One

Author:Rodney Erickson

“The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.”

Kind Different Earth Lasts Attention Good Things Guitar Different Kinds Attention Span Different Kinds Of Music

Author:Ryan Adams

“My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.”

Knows Made Lasts Fighting Lost Parent Huge Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Woods Last Time Fists Divorced Stressful Mazes Ikea

Author:Jedediah Bila

“As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.”

World Trying Wanted Lasts Three Watches Decades Irony Scenarios Armageddon Doomsday

Author:Thomas Frank

“"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.”

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Author:David Crosby

“In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.”

People Ifs Knows Lasts Culture Figures Villain Captains Figure Skating Bond Movie Tycoons James Bond Movie

Author:Thomas Frank

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.”

Long Lasts Seeing Long Time Invisible Visible

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.”

Inspirational Self Earth Lasts Games Buddhism Self Realization Realization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.”

Inspirational Earth Lasts Games Winning Loses Progress Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.”

World Inspirational Eye Lasts Life Is Night Buddhism Eternity Day And Night Blink Transient Blink Of An Eye

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.”

Facts Lasts Versions Administration Barack Supposed To Be Pairs Despise Depressing Portraits Gallery Posters Lobbyists

Author:Thomas Frank

“Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.”

Lasts Meditation Buddhism Clean Dirt Showers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.”

Believe Long Real Reality Lasts Form Mistake Wise Terrible Shapes This Life Hinduism Mistaken Krishna Ephemeral Realness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.”

Men Lasts Time Jesus Names Lost Parent Loses Church Hardest Irony Ministry Christian Ministry

Author:Vance Havner

“Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.”

Firsts Christian Lasts Church First Time Christian Inspirational Being The Best Last Time Best Times

Author:Vance Havner

“No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.”

Long Christian Lasts Nations Praying Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Body Lasts Night Relationship Honesty Not Sure Considering Last Night Bisexual Gender And Sexuality

Book:Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“Who were you before you put yourself last.”

Lasts Being Yourself

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“People know I was the last true champion.”

People Knows Lasts Champion True Champion

Author:Lennox Lewis

“Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.”

May Children Lasts Young Parent Decision Support Week Policy Immigration Enthusiasm Immigrants Voters Hispanic Immigration Policy

Author:Mara Liasson

“If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.”

Ifs Happens Lasts Night Worst Wake Up Complaining Last Night Headlines Pictures Of Myself

Author:Matt Lucas

“I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.”

Years Believe Moments Kids Lasts Night Walks Acting Four Pushing Four Years Buttons Embarrassed Last Night Nickelodeon

Author:Nia Long

“The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.”

Kind Lasts Order Courses Force Happened Air Military Medicine Violent Combat Psychiatry Assignments Air Force Enlisted

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.”

Want Giving Wells Mean Made I Can Dream Lasts Opportunity Pay Directors Angel Give Me My Time

Author:Virginie Ledoyen

“In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.”

Men Two Lasts Three Media He Man Understood Decades

Author:Anson Mount

“Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.”

Lasts Beautiful Life Is Life Is Beautiful

Author:Brit Marling

“All actors think every job will be their last.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Actors

Author:David Morrissey

“Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.”

Book Character Lasts Novel Changed Aspect Eternity Recognition Comic Comic Book Merchandising Book Characters Comic Book Characters

Author:Grant Morrison

“It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We're really proud of that. We're anticipating a very strong season for CBS.”

Lasts Night Strong Proud Beats Seasons Tired Factors Survivor Very Strong Last Night

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.”

Use Lasts Lips Beets

Author:Shay Mitchell

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.”

Lasts Projects Casts Eleven

Author:Vanessa Marano

“One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.”

Way Years Made Ideas Lasts Past Couple Uncomfortable

Author:Aimee Mann

“When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.”

People Want Running Jobs Lasts Company Creating Creating Jobs

Author:Robert Metcalfe

“I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.”

Way Want Book Matter Lasts Force Focus Subjects Shapes Tests No Matter What Capture Geography Sociological Test Of Time

Author:David Maraniss

“Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.”

Knows Years Wells Doe Made Lasts Last Year Motor Hybrid General Motors

Author:Ed Markey

“The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.”

Long I Can Lasts Guy Effort Couple Distance Long Distance

Author:Holly Madison

“You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?”

Ifs Knows Shows Seems Lasts Remember Fit Doing You Retrospect

Author:Holly Madison

“I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.”

Thinking Long Shows Lasts Five Connected

Author:James MacArthur

“In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”

Years Firsts Jobs Lasts Father New York Engineers Reserves Senior Maintenance Great Job Federal Reserve Working Life

Author:Tony Visconti

“The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.”

Book Lasts Fountainhead Rereading

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.”

People Ifs Years Helping Lasts Night Social Security Benefits Debt Farmers Fewer Telephones Social Security Last Night Constituents Subsidies Vermont

Author:Peter Welch

“Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.”

World Years Ideas Lasts Law Cost Limits Highest Congress Cards No Idea Reasonable Last Year Reserves Transactions Fees Processing Federal Reserve American Business Debit Debit Cards

Author:Peter Welch

“Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.”

Want Made Lasts Sound Records Modern Software Tails Chasing Identical Gears Plugs

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.”

Years Lasts Best Times

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

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