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"My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables."
"Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love"
"Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?"
"If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things."
"I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others."
"I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings"
"I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting."
"When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured."
"The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist."
"As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness."
"Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future."
"My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself."
"Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them."
"This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion."
"My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails."
"Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily."
"I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading."
"People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't."
"It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through."
"Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites."
