Alison Krauss Quotes

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

Alison Krauss

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• It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Explore

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Hero

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Work
  • Long
  • London

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Real
  • Today
  • Problem

• President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Government

• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • End

• As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Life
  • World
  • Think

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Education
  • Change
  • Learn

• Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Attention
  • Fighting
  • Far

• There's no question that jihad historically means war.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Question
  • Means

• Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
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• I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Bad
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  • Try

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
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  • School
  • Kids

• Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Morning

• If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

  

  William Martin
  • Children
  • Humility
  • Example

• We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

  

  Joe Lonsdale

• The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.

  

  Jordan Klepper
  • Good
  • American
  • Fear

• I still think of myself as from Illinois.

  

  Alison Krauss