Danny Gokey Quotes
On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
Danny Gokey
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
S. Jay Olshansky
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
Maeve Binchy
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
Yoko Ono
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
Carla Bley
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Nadia Comaneci
If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
Beck
My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.
Nate Robinson
The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
Kailash Kher
[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.
Fanny Kemble
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Courteney Cox
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
David Duchovny
In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.
Joe Biden
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
Nathan Wolfe
On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
Danny Gokey
