Keith Urban Quotes
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Practices were tough.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.
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My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
