Keith Urban Quotes

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

Keith Urban

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
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• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
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• That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Time
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• I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
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• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I want to have a normal high-school experience.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • School
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  • High

• I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • People
  • Learn
  • Mad

• When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • World
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• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Difficult
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• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Going
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• The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Future
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• To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Life
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• Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• Part 1, Ch. 2

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

• If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

  

  William of Occam
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• If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

  

  Michael Ealy
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• Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.

  

  Austin Mahone
  • Up
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• You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Wit
  • Sarcasm
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• I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

  

  Keith Urban