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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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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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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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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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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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.
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God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
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At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
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I don't do the same show on any two nights.
