Brett Young Quotes
In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
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You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
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Vince missed a left-handed lay-in and all of a sudden we looked like a team that didn't have confidence. I'm really, really disappointed that we broke down defensively.
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
