Kelly Clarkson Quotes

My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.

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• Imperfection is perfection.

  

  Flume
  • Perfection
  • Imperfection

• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • True
  • Champion
  • Watching

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Edge

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Today
  • Ideas
  • Economy

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Race
  • Bestial

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Important
  • History
  • Tool

• If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Live
  • Integrity
  • Rebel

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Crazy
  • Sad
  • Angry

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• All the weird inconveniences of adult life that you thought they made up to lend excitement and color to episodes of 'Sex and the City' are, in fact, real.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • People
  • Credit
  • Sheep

• My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
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