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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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.
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In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
