Kris Allen Quotes
I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.
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If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.
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I am really laid back and kind of go-with-the-flow, but I will never do anything that I don't believe in.
