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

• Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Feelings
  • Social
  • Manifestation

• How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

  

  Caryl Churchill
  • Home
  • Soul
  • Travel

• I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Positive

• The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Up
  • High
  • Light

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

  

  Blake Shelton