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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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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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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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
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If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.
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You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.
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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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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.
