Kelsea Ballerini Quotes

I wanted to be a vet. I really thought that's what I wanted to do.

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Angry

• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • History
  • Think
  • Change

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • Know
  • Start

• I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Family
  • Always

• I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Small
  • Single

• When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Food

• Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Book
  • Moral

• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Doing

• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Love
  • Walk

• President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friend

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Power

• Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Done

• The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Time
  • Work
  • Stop

• I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Small
  • Style

• I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

  

  David Beckham

• Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Writing
  • Knows

• I wanted to be a vet. I really thought that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini