Charles Kelley Quotes
It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.
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'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
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It was a total dream of mine to have my voice on an album with Stevie Nicks.
