Aaron Tippin Quotes
I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
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Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.
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In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
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I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people.
