Garth Brooks Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capacity is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
