Charles Kelley Quotes
My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
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A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
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My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
