Blake Shelton Quotes
I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.
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I probably have the crappiest tattoo - not only in country music - but maybe the world.
