David R. Ellis Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I don't have many friends.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.
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I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.
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After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
