Brantley Gilbert Quotes
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.
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I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.
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The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.
