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““A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory...””

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“A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.”

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Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

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“Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely…

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“I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside my fingers.…

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Pride is the rope God allows us all.

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Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

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“Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul…

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“Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no umbilical growth…

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“If you can’t talk sense, don’t talk at all.”

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“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.”

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Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

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It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world…

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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,…

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“I’ll always come back to you,” he said. “Always.”

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Whether I'm in the main event or on the preliminary card, the same Cowboy is going to be out there.

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“Let's face it. I'm the romantic equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. Men date me then disappear , never to be heard from again." Jaymes,…

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Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle…

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“Howdy, ma'am. You always talk to yourself?” Velia glanced up into bright eyes, as blue as the flame on a cigarette lighter, belonging to…

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Freebird Michael Hayes was my first broadcast partner who was a pure, 100% antagonist. Hayes and I joined forces during Cowboy Bill Watts' attempt…

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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

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My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to take me…

Smokey Robinson

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Sometimes a cowgirl has to do what a cowboy can't.

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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.

Kacey Musgraves

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I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

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