Darius Rucker Quotes
I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
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You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
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It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.
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What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.
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The rest of the band Soundgarden thought it was silly of the press to concentrate on the beefcake when I was writing songs, singing, and playing guitar for the band. Even now, some people will stick a paragraph about my hair in the body of a review.
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I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
