Brent Smith Quotes

Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

Brent Smith Shinedown

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• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Like

• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Real
  • Theatre
  • Broadway

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If you don't like me, it's your problem.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • You
  • Me
  • Problem

• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question
  • Hand
  • Theory

• I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Evolution

• 'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Children
  • Future

• I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

  

  Dudley Moore
  • Night
  • Meaningful

• I'm the type of person who far prefers a vacation filled with trips to museums and art galleries, shopping and exploring vintage flea markets, people-watching at cafes, and discovering delicious restaurants as opposed to lounging on a beach for days on end.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • People
  • Art
  • Beach

• I know how fortunate I am and my family are to be healthy.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Family

• I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

  

  Claire Denis
  • People
  • Why

• It is important to let every employee know where he or she stands throughout his or her time in your business; I would suggest every quarter of the fiscal year. By being honest and open with each team member and their performance, you create value in their efforts.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Time
  • Important
  • She

• When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Depression

• Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Help

• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Brave

• A lot of guys like to fantasize about having sex with 2 girls at the same time... I like to fantasize about having sex with the same girl twice, thank you.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Sex

• I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Results

• After me, everybody started drafting speed. But they used to laugh at a lot of those guys because they couldn't catch. Otto Graham once said that I had 9.1 speed and 12-flat hands, but I proved him wrong. I was the leader of the pack.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Laugh
  • Speed
  • Otto Graham

• My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Weird
  • Songs
  • Stuff

• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • Therapy
  • Cheaper
  • Metaphors