Eric Church Quotes
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
Quotes to Explore
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.
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Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
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You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude.
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The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
