Chris Stapleton Quotes
Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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Those who go along get along.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.
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It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
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We certainly accomplished a lot this year. We were 6-10 last year, and the facts speak for themselves this year. We got a lot of good things done.
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Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
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Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.
