Colleen Barrett Quotes
When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all.
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Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.
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Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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All great achievements require time.
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The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
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There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
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A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.
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When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.
