Trace Adkins Quotes
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
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I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
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'The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run.'
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I don't do the same show on any two nights.
