Alan Jackson Quotes
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I am a very selfish person.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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Words are just words.
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I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
