Darius Rucker Quotes
I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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My father is an amazing person.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Home is where one starts from.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.
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I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.
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It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
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I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
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One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
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I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
