Blake Shelton Quotes

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

Blake Shelton

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• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • See

• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Women
  • Woman

• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Hurt
  • Learn
  • Down

• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
  • Expectations

• I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Find
  • Answer
  • Worth

• All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Time
  • School
  • Friends

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Singing
  • Waiting
  • Wind

• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Cannot

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

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Question
  • Means

• A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Times
  • Cement
  • Downtown

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Technology

• 'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Brain

• Egoism is the identification of the power that knows with the instruments of knowing.

  

  Patanjali
  • Power

• Even the dry tips of the lingering hedge-mustard, grey and blighted, and the fringe on the roof of the standing democrat-wagon were unstirred. And yet amid that tense godless calm the high bare boughs of all the trees in the yard were moving....

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • High
  • Moving
  • Calm

• As a kid, I had a background in theater.

  

  Charlie Kaufman

• [Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Real
  • Waiting

• The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

  

  Boris Vian

• I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

  

  Blake Shelton