Keith Urban Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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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.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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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.
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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.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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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.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
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The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.
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I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.
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You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
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I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.
