Eric Church Quotes

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

Eric Church

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• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Biblical
  • Prophet

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

  Warren Giles
  • You
  • Dying
  • Wood

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Ethics
  • Quiet
  • Stone

• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Far
  • Expensive

• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Political
  • Legal

• I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Years
  • Old
  • Crew

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Long

• I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Done
  • Innocent

• I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Worst

• Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

  

  Eric Church
  • Music
  • Career
  • Mistake