Lee DeWyze Quotes
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.
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American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
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Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
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Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.
