Rodney Crowell quote: "Democracy won't work if we're asleep...It's a wicked world and we're all in it/But that could change in a New York minute...So pray for peace until you're hoarse/And maybe fear will run its course."

'It's Alright, Ma' would be the prototype for that tune, I freely admit, ... When I was 12 years old...
RODNEY CROWELL

Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ....
RODNEY CROWELL

Don?t Get Me Started
RODNEY CROWELL

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big J...
RODNEY CROWELL

Unfortunately, 9/11 crystallized some misconceptions that made some people unable to realize that re...
RODNEY CROWELL

and I innocently hit an electric commercial streak, writing some songs and making some music that wa...
RODNEY CROWELL

What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creati...
RODNEY CROWELL

[And how did he recover the patience that allowed him to await the arrival of songs for his 21st cen...
RODNEY CROWELL

To me, the outsider is God, ... If you take extreme fundamentalist Muslims, who believe it's sent do...
RODNEY CROWELL

I don't think it will ever be my style to take a big mallet and just ... bust the window with it, .....
RODNEY CROWELL

I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being, ... ...
RODNEY CROWELL

We did a show in New York the other day, and after we played The Obscenity Prayer , a woman came up ...
RODNEY CROWELL

So recently I went back and walked it, and it was only 24 blocks. Walking up Wayside Drive from Aven...
RODNEY CROWELL

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL

You hate to lose a guy like Takeo Spikes , but it's just a time for me to step up, make the plays he...
ANGELO CROWELL

It's a hard bullet to swallow with Spikes going down like that, ... It is mixed emotions. But I beli...
ANGELO CROWELL

It's a hard pill to swallow, Spikes going down like that, man. It is mixed emotions. Those shoes are...
ANGELO CROWELL

Just taking things more serious, taking a different approach. I was kind of transformed, so it's kin...
ANGELO CROWELL

On the first one, we got caught on a quick snap. On the other we just weren't gap sound. You have to...
ANGELO CROWELL

I can't be Takeo, ... He's a Pro Bowl caliber player and he's shown the kind of plays he can make. W...
ANGELO CROWELL

The biggest heaviest days we seemed to have a crew of six.
BRENT CROWELL

The biggest challenge was getting the crew together.
BRENT CROWELL

We took that number and made it work.
BRENT CROWELL

It's a personal story. It's a great story. It's a simple story. It's a beautiful looking film. Somet...
BRENT CROWELL

We ran into every obstacle possible.
BRENT CROWELL

It's such an essential element for the story.
BRENT CROWELL

It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.
MERLE CROWELL

The people he needs the most in his life were taken away from him. I mean he's been through so much....
CARRIE CROWELL

I'm worried because they said I couldn't sleep in the same bed as my son. I feel like they feel I'm ...
CARRIE CROWELL

I'm concerned I won't get a fair chance with my child. I lost my two babies, and now they want to ta...
CARRIE CROWELL

We are recommending that the city determine a rate to which we can compare our projected assessment ...
STEVEN CROWELL

The original measure did not go far enough to stop eminent domain abuses, but my version that was ap...
JASON CROWELL

Pat has more than 20 years of viable experience with the health-care industry. He is more than quali...
JASON CROWELL

If not now, when? If not us, who?
JASON CROWELL

Committee approval is a significant victory for Ethan & Friends for Autism because it is a step towa...
JASON CROWELL

It was a natural thing for him (Harley) to do what he did. It was a natural thing for the (detective...
LARRY CROWELL

No one can walk in the yard without him getting aggressive. My dog doesn't know the difference from ...
LARRY CROWELL

I was just woke up with a gunshot, and then I heard a yelp.
LARRY CROWELL

Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the he...
GRACE NOLL CROWELL

Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages,
Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.
The ...
GRACE NOLL CROWELL

Let Us Keep Christmas Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining t...
GRACE NOLL CROWELL

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugl...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wif...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing every...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos...
RODNEY KING

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m...
RODNEY BROOKS

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears ...
RODNEY ATKINS

C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my di...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming ho...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professio...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wi...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that s...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to kn...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliat...
RODNEY STARK

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

I have been pleased to receive petitions from groups that seek a range of new gun control measures a...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. E...
RODNEY ATKINS

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym...
RODNEY KING

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mi...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went o...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he want...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS

Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.
RODNEY CARRINGTON

Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Con...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more pe...
RODNEY STARK

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called '...
RODNEY STARK

It is important for me to personally visit Superfund sites to assess the progress being made.
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.
RODNEY KING

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God bea...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record ...
RODNEY ATKINS

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
RODNEY ATKINS

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. So...
RODNEY BROOKS

My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of...
RODNEY STARK

I can remember when President Nixon basically said, 'All troops have been withdrawn from the del...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic lea...
RODNEY ALEXANDER

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, yo...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Life is just a bowl of pits.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth,...
RODNEY YEE

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, Look ... twins!
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
RODNEY CARRINGTON

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we ...
RODNEY BROOKS

It is now clear that the president violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that...
RODNEY BROOKS

I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican - there just aren't m...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

To me, the New Jersey law enforcement community, and many other Americans, one of the biggest impedi...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

He's 6-foot-4, runs like a deer and can jump like Kobe Bryant.
RODNEY HARRISON

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own...
RODNEY MULLEN

It is a static display and I think the younger generation wants flash images and a lot of things hap...
RODNEY FONG

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have don...
RODNEY KING

I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I wa...
RODNEY ATKINS

I think fundraising has a lot to do with political viability.
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

There are some very high tenor parts in really exposed places. It calls for heroic tenors.
RODNEY WYNKOOP

There are some key movers and shakers that have at least verbally committed to contribute to my camp...
RODNEY WOODS

The offense did just enough and the defense pretty much went into the game saying if [the Cowboys] d...
RODNEY HARRISON

I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you...
RODNEY ATKINS

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I...
RODNEY KING

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully re...
RODNEY STARK

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
RODNEY STARK

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my ...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surr...
RODNEY ATKINS

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just kee...
RODNEY ATKINS

That's been our Achilles heel. We knew it. It's just a mental thing. We missed opportunities. But to...
RODNEY WESLEY

One of the keys of playing San Francisco is containing Alan when he gets the ball in the high post. ...
RODNEY TENTION

He's the best in the business. He's a beast. We miss his leadership. We miss his smile. We miss his ...
RODNEY HARRISON

I turned around and I saw him down and I just started praying for him because you never want to see ...
RODNEY HARRISON

I don't anticipate any problems. Eric's been in the system. We love both of those guys to death. We ...
RODNEY HARRISON

There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a champ...
RODNEY HARRISON

We're not defending anything, because we don't have anything. (This) is a new season, just like 2005...
RODNEY HARRISON

It's very hard. You see the score and you want to slack up. But you can't because Cal is on the side...
RODNEY CARNEY

I played against him in basketball tournaments back in New York, prep school, anything you can name ...
RODNEY EPPERSON

The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytica...
RODNEY ATKINS

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I shou...
RODNEY KING

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just...
RODNEY BROOKS

She took a great angle. We've been stressing that. Early on in the season we weren't taking great an...
RODNEY TAYLOR

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility bet...
RODNEY STARK

Well, he's a fiery guy. He's very competitive. He's high-spirited, he's emotional. ... I guess he's ...
RODNEY HARRISON

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says...
RODNEY BROOKS

We cannot let these sounds [find] and over-excite a sympathetic resonance.
RODNEY ROCHA

The most glaringly obvious fact about the present case is the significant media and public interest ...
RODNEY MELVILLE

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My mother never breast-fed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everythin...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

I couldn't live here. The real estate is too high.
RODNEY CARNEY

Do you want me to shut the trial down this afternoon? ... You are not to engage in this kind of inte...
RODNEY MELVILLE

We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-leve...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don't support Nancy Pelosi's vers...
RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN

I think it's better to wear outfits because everyone has on the same thing.
RODNEY HUGHES

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many peo...
RODNEY KING

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.
RODNEY BROOKS

I saw my hometown burning that day.
RODNEY KING

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Br...
RODNEY BARKER

The current sleaze scandal is potentially very, very damaging indeed for the government, because the...
RODNEY BARKER

If you look at almost any prominent political thinking intellectual these days, they have all moved ...
RODNEY BARKER

This is purely an intellectual endeavor.
RODNEY MARTIN

I kicked it in full gear on the last lap, and ran it in like 52 seconds.
RODNEY OYLER

The only place for women in football is making the tea at half-time.
RODNEY MARSH

...but we know better now, don't we?
RODNEY LOVELL

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever ha...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to t...
RODNEY BROOKS

Democracy won't work if we're asleep...It's a wicked world and we're all in it/But that could change in a New York minute...So pray for peace until you're hoarse/And maybe fear will run its course.

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Rodney Crowell

Democracy won't work if we're asleep...It's a wicked world and we're all in it/But that could change in a New York minute...So pray for peace until you're hoarse/And maybe fear will run its course.

Rodney Crowell

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