Jerrod Niemann Quotes
I decided I'm gonna sing what I want, wear what I want, write what I want, and hope that if it comes from my heart then people will see that it's real and gravitate toward it.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
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'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.
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She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I decided I'm gonna sing what I want, wear what I want, write what I want, and hope that if it comes from my heart then people will see that it's real and gravitate toward it.
