Tracy Lawrence Quotes
Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people's tastes change.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
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I'm pretty boring.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
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I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.
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And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo.
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I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to love their organizations. We need that level of commitment ... Yet organizations have done very little to deserve that kind of staying-power.
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Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
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Things are always going to evolve and change. You might not always like the direction of it, but people's tastes change.
