It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its … - Emmylou Harris

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We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

Emmylou Harris

It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.

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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

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Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

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Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

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When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

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Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

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We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

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