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" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "

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" When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. "

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" It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse. "

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" I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. "

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" The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be. "

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" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "

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" I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. "

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" To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing. "

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" I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "

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" When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. "

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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "

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" I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that. "

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" Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life. "

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" It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you. "

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" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "

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" I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me. "

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" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "

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" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

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" I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. "

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" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "

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" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

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" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "

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" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

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" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "

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" Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. "

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" I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. "

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" I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me. "

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