Sam Graves Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
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Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.
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I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.
