Keith Urban Quotes

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

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• After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Country
  • Ignore

• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • You
  • Very

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Love
  • Relate

• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Single

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Army

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Religion

• Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Important
  • Money
  • Nice

• I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Always
  • Gold

• My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Important
  • Family