Kris Allen Quotes

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

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• I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Football

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
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• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Me
  • Appreciation

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Live
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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Road
  • Same

• I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Art
  • Air

• If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Blow

• If you really want to act, I say get in class. Every kind of class. Put as many tools in that tool belt, because once you get out there, the real world doesn't sugarcoat much!

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • World
  • Real

• Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

  

  Kris Allen
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