Chris Stapleton Quotes

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

Chris Stapleton

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• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Your

• This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Technology
  • Perspective

• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • City
  • Fight
  • Angry

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Really

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • You
  • Integrity
  • Accuracy

• Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Age
  • Short
  • Guilt

• My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Family
  • Me

• I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Dad
  • Something
  • Musician

• I love older men.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Men
  • Love
  • Older Men

• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Control
  • Air
  • Year

• Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

  

  Harlan Ellison

• An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

  

  Karl Marx

• The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Age
  • Past

• BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not trying to determine who should live or die. Everyone has a right to life without suffering.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• 'I'm in the Lord's hands,' he said humbly. 'I'm but a penny whistle for His breath to blow on.' This he said with such solemnity that the meaning of a fanatic was suddenly revealed to me. One or two distorted notions, a wild imagination, and fierce passions, and there you have the ingredients ready.

  

  John Buchan
  • Imagination
  • Blow
  • Fierce

• Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

  

  John Burnside
  • People
  • Help

• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • People
  • Mother
  • Death

• I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

  

  George Clooney
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Urgency

• I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

  

  Chris Stapleton