Usher Quotes
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
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My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
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I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.
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We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.
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Don't just do something, be there.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
