Kris Allen Quotes
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I love to push myself.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.
