Chris Stapleton Quotes
I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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There is no truly global justice.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.
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'Surprisingly, it was in my mouth,' he said, 'I always forget to check there.'
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It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
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I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.
