Cole Swindell Quotes
Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.
Quotes to Explore
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.
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It's an acting job - acting natural.
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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
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Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person. Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself. The Christ is Jesus and the negation of Jesus.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.
