Blake Shelton Quotes
In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.
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After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.
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I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.
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I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
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My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
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In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
