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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
-
People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
-
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.
-
My father is an amazing person.
-
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.
-
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.
-
L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
-
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
-
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
-
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
-
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.
-
Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
-
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.
-
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
-
It's hard to be serious in life.
-
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
-
What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which said, "Come to America and you'll have golden sidewalks. The land will be yours." There was something so inspirational about the fact that these immigrants from all over the world felt that here was a place of freedom, a place of opportunity.
-
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.
-
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
-
In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
-
I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
