"There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking."

-- Chet Atkins

#Country Quotes #Song Quotes #Drinking Quotes

“I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.”

Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.
“From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.”
“What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.”
“We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.”

Source : "The Next American System". Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
“The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning”

Source : "Texas Senate Approves Strict Abortion Measure" by John Schwartz, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2013.
“The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.”
“He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.”
“Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.”

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