Brett Young Quotes
I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
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I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.
