Charles Kelley Quotes
When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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The world is too violent right now.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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I also think that I had great mechanics.
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I found school very boring and frustrating.
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.
