Danny Gokey Quotes
Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
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No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
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Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.
